I am not sure about FOam on Panels. It might lead to heating of the system. Just place the box on a rubber mat.
Rereading everything here. Thanks for all the help. OK, I'm going to hold off on the video cards until I pick the monitors. As it will take almost a month to build if I want I"m sure I could add them in the final hour.
They said, "guaranteed to be built after X-mas." They are inundated. Totally backlogged. Interesting, don't you think? I was thinking Xmas sales were going to be horrendous but who knows.
Just a question and not to throw the discussion OFF> Did you look at Dell precision workstations - example below an EXAMPLE (these come with the OS): Dell Precision T3500 Workstation Starting Price $1,762.00 Instant Savings $328.00 Subtotal $1,434.00 My Selections All Options Dell Precision T3500 Workstation Catalog Number / Description Product Code Qty SKU Id Dell Precision T3500: Dell Precision T3500, CMT, Standard Power Supply, C2 Motherboard T3500W 1 [224-8671] 1 Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Professional wXP Mode,No Media, 32-bit, English W7PVN3E 1 [330-6228][421-1482][421-2262] 11 Energy Efficiency Option: No Energy Star NOESTAR 1 [330-3201] 25 Processor: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5507, 2.26GHz,4M L3, 4.8GT/s E5507 1 [317-4295] 2 Productivity Software: Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 STARP10 1 [468-7403][468-7439] 22 Hardware Support Services : 3 Year ProSupport and 3 Year NBD On-Site Service U3IPY 1 [983-9162][984-5810][989-3449][992-9042][993-3140][993-9008][993-9017] 29 Memory: 4GB, 1333MHz, DDR3 SDRAM, NECC (2 DIMM) 4G3N332 1 [317-1236] 3 chassis configuration: Mini-Tower Chassis Configuration MT 1 [311-7463] 15 Graphics: Dual 256MB NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 295, 4MON, 4DP w/ 4DP to DVI Adapt DNV2954 1 [320-7903][330-4320] 6 Security Software: Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services, 15-months TMWF15 1 [410-0330] 37 Hard Drive Configuration: C1 All SATA or SSD drives, No RAID for 1 Hard Drive SATA1 1 [341-8562] 9 Hard Drive Controller: Integrated Intel chipset SATA 3.0Gb/s controller NSASCTL 1 [341-9289] 24 Boot Hard Drive: 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache⢠320GS 1 [341-8998] 8 CD-ROM, DVD and Read-Write Devices: 16X DVD-ROM with Cyberlink Power DVD⢠No Media DVD16N 1 [313-7458][421-4370] 16 Keyboard: Dell QuietKey Keyboard QUSB 1 [330-3203] 4 Mouse: Dell MS111 USB Optical Mouse USBOP 1 [330-9458] 12
You're not throwing anything off. This is actually close to what I configured. But in the end decided to go with the Intel® Core⢠i7-950 3.06, which HP doesn't offer.