This was another really fun build to do. The first build had much greater detail when I had posted but I still tried to cover everything here.
Good series guys. I'm hanging out till mid-2012 and going to build one based on the i7-3770 when it comes out. A belated Xmas present from the wife
Kiwi, is the difference enough to wait for - as far as I can tell pretty similar basic spec to 17-2600? http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-Core i7-3770.html and I read a 20% performance upgrade (but translates to 56% from i7 950 etc.).
Put everything together and find out my power supply is crapping out now too. I guess I get to disassemble and rebuild my rebuild one more time. Power supply is on order. %#^$&!!!! Maybe while I wait I'll find a deal on a couple more monitors. I'm still rockin' 2 19" Dell crts in my system along with my LCDs, and I would love go all LCD.
I like to run everything silent so I'm keen on the power reduction. Also I don't need the upgrade now so waiting is good self-discipline training