Of course what I'm about to say is "apples and oranges" in comparison... But I just this week bought a Dell T3500 from their Outlet site... Xeon W3530 CPU, X58 mobo 3G RAM Win 7 Pro 2 x 250GB HDD in RAID 1 2, ATI V3750 video cards (nicer than I'd previously thought) 2, Broadcom 1 GB LAN cards (why even ONE, I ask.. but got 2) For $629 + tax. It's quiet, fast, and best of all... low cost.
Backed up with system image and system repair disc. Installed many updates including sp1 sys info attached
Received some nice pm's. Everyone is welcome to post here no problem. Feel free to contribute to builds, parts, used machines, new machines it's all good.
I was asked about the Asus Motherboard P8Z68 <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3WIvBitl3u0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qvZRg8veroQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This is an awesome board. Like it a lot. The smart response is nice feature. ssd combined with hdd is a great feature.
Running the machine for a couple hours now. Can take a look at the temps here for the CPU. Looks like the Hyper 212+ is operating just as the good feedback here said it would do. Thanks so much for the information regarding the cooler.