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actually i was planning to SLI the two 8800's im just having some touble with the mobo, lol im looking for something with atleast 3 pci-express (for physics card in the near future) and it has to be able to support upcoming processors as in 1333/1066 as my mother board shows...is there any SLI motherboard that can support DDR3 memory???

edit: o and for cases i want something that both looks good and is sturdy so if you guys can help me out with that, thank you verry much

edit2: i seem to be confused about something, does the motherboard have to be SLI (for example the 680i) or you can SLI with any mobo
 
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The motherboard doesn't have to made by nVidia, the design is by the company and they sell the rights to companies like eVGA who then make the boards. The board needs to be SLi ready. This means an nForce chipset, Intel and ATi chipsets only support Crossfire.
 
Froboy7391_99 said:
Q6700-$566
2 GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333-$435
Asus P5K3 Deluxe/WiFi AP-$250
150GB WD Raptor 10k -$200
1Tb Hitachi HDD - $389
Antec 900 - $140
Crossfire Sapphire 2900XTs -$750
PC Power and Cooling Silnercer 750 Qaud - $210
2x Samsung Sata Lightscribe DVD Burner - $74
Thermal Right Ultra 120 Extreme CPU Cooler - $65
The Card Reader you mentioned - $13
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extremegamer Fatality - $140
Your monitor you mentioned -$270
Speakers you mentioned - $87
Total - $3590

You would have amazing bragging rights with this system

This is on July 22nd BTW
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If you look at my signature and what I mention below, it was all built for under $2100.00 from NewEgg. Not counting the rebates.

Drives/Readers
LITE-ON SATA DVD-ROM Drive
LITE-ON SATA 20x DVD+-R DVD Burner w/LightScribe
MITSUMI USB 2.0 Digital Card Reader w/1.44MB 3.5" Floppy

TV Tuner
Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-150-PCI Interface Tuner w/remote

Today I just installed 2 THERMALTAKE iBOXs 5.25" Drive bay Accessory Boxes. Great for storing memory cards, etc.

BMN
 
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Froboy7391_99 said:
Q6700-$566
2 GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333-$435
Asus P5K3 Deluxe/WiFi AP-$250
150GB WD Raptor 10k -$200
1Tb Hitachi HDD - $389
Antec 900 - $140
Crossfire Sapphire 2900XTs -$750
PC Power and Cooling Silnercer 750 Qaud - $210
2x Samsung Sata Lightscribe DVD Burner - $74
Thermal Right Ultra 120 Extreme CPU Cooler - $65
The Card Reader you mentioned - $13
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extremegamer Fatality - $140
Your monitor you mentioned -$270
Speakers you mentioned - $87
Total - $3590

You would have amazing bragging rights with this system

This is on July 22nd BTW
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Sorry tdeath101, I coudln't help for past several days since I was at London...:P

Here's my setup for you:

Lian-Li PC-V2000BW Plus II
http://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts/product.asp?PRDCODE=CSLI-V2000BW&REFID=FR
There is a better picture:
http://www.xoxide.com/lian-li-pc-v2000bw-plus-2.html
$270.99

or if you prefer silver color of this version
http://www.xoxide.com/lian-li-pc-v2000aw-plus-2.html
$309.99


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
$475

(Two) CORSAIR Dominator 2GB DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145043
$306

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad - Copper EPS12V 750W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703008
$209.99
Agree with Froboy
 
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168131880134
Keep the motherboard you chose, it's great motherboard :)
$209.99

and I wasn't too sure about hard drives since I don't know wheter you would prefer either "lot of storage" or "speed"...

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136011
$174.99
SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052
$109.99
(You choose how many hard drives you want :P I would suggest 3 since you will be gaming and about 1.5TB will be enough? Put these in RAID of course)
So total hard drive = $505.06

(Two) EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130072
$506.99 x 2 = $1013.98

(Two) SAMSUNG Black SATA DVD Burner With LightScribe Technology
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151141
$75.98
Agree with Froboy

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102005
$139.99
Agree with Froboy

SAMSUNG 206BW Black 20" 2 ms
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001095
Keep the monitor, really, because I was going to buy that one too :D
$269.99

Creative Inspire P7800 90 Watts 7.1 Speaker
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836116153
And yes, keep the speaker once again
$86.99

Total (without CPU cooling): $3292.97

CPU Cooling:
CoolIT Eliminator TEC CPU Cooler
http://www.techmicro.com/product_p/ELIMINATOR.htm
$143.03

Of course, there are more CPU coolers out there that are under $200 (which will fit into your $3500 budget) but I just chose this since you might have a hard time building a water cooling system for a first time and you just want to build it and play CSS or whatever :P)

So finally,
Total Cost: $3436 (wow, didn't expect the price to be "exact")

I really hope that this helped! :D
 
tdeath101 said:
ok what if the mobo has two pci-e slots and its not even made by nvidia could it still be SLI'ed?
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The requirements to have a SLI Motherboard....

nForce 570 or Above North Bridge
2 x PCIe Slots
and more requirements from nVidia that I wouldn't spend my time on it :P

Just like what GCR is saying, they could be different brands (such as BFG, eVGA, Asus, XFX, ECS and so on...) but they need to be SLI Ready motherboard.
 
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