Your name is confusing. At a glance I read it as Brennil, in which case I thought "Wouldn't she just ask Certis?"

Then I clicked on it and noticed my mistake.

Anyway!

Quad SLI is pointless. Let's just get that out of the way right now. You'll get better performance out of a regular SLI setup using two of the new 8800 Series cards than you will out of the Dual 7950GX2's. Quad SLI's benefits are extremely minor, and that's only when it actually works. Totally not worth the money or effort involved.

Third: You do understand just how preliminary and unsupported all the Quad Core stuff really is right now right?

On the other hand.. if you're looking to be as future proof as possible... by all means. Spend the crazy dough building an uber rig.

Your choice of Quad core severely limits your motherboard choices right now due to support still being in the really early stages. I can't seem to find the list of Core 2 Quad supporting boards here, but there is one out there. If one of the new Nforce 680i boards is on that list that's what I'd recommend, without a doubt.

As for your other stuff like monitor.. how big do you want to go? If price really is no object get one of the new 1080p LCD TV's and play everything at 1920x1080. You could get a 37 or 40 incher.

The only surefire recommendation I can make as far as a super-rig is for a new case. The Stacker RC-830 is the best case in the history of computer cases.

For your power supply go for one of the higher end PC Power & Cooling supplies. I think they're the best around as far as high quality PC power supplies these days. Nvidia is recommending somewhere around the 800watt range for a PSU to run two 8800GTX's, though I think if the amperage is there on the 12v rails for a slightly lower wattage supply it would probably run fine. I'm looking forward to seeing if anybody tries two GTX's on my 750watt. It's got tons of amperage on the 12v rail so there's really no reason it shouldn't work.

Oh! and if you're getting GTX cards.. why get the BFG's? If you're looking to spend top dollar wait for wider availability on the EVGA 8800GTX w/ACS3 cooling on it. It runs faster and cooler than all the other GTX cards, though it does it at a price. The other one you could consider is the Sparkle Calibre GTX with the dual-fan peltier cooling solution on it. The downside on that one is that it draws even more juice from a power supply than the other GTX cards. There's a roundup of 8800GTX cards (and one GTS) over at anandtech.com still linked on the front page. Check it out if you want to compare the GTX's to each other. You'll get a good look at the differences between the one evga and the Sparkle compared to the GTX boards that use the reference design.

For your RAM, I'd say you can't go wrong with anything in the XMS line.

And on hard drives.. yes, in general SCSI isn't really worth it. I'd say get a couple of Rapter 10k rpm drives and you'll be happy as can be.

Did you make sure those video cards are on the supported list for the 30" Dell Monitor? I recall you needing some special card type to make it work.

Dual DVI ports and Dual Link DVI cards are different. He just has to check with the manufacturer to be sure!

Never heard of Dual Link DVI before. What the heck does it even mean?

Oh, and can I make a recommendation for a new mouse? The Microsoft Habu is everything the Logitech G5 should have been.

Mine came yesterday. My initial impressions are exactly as I said above. It has all the features of the G5 without any of the glaring usability warts like the missing forward button or the damn near unusable middle mouse button.

And the software isn't worthless like Logitech Setpoint is

Very welcome sir. Especially glad you like the Stacker.

It could be a plain silver box and I'd still love it as long as it was easy to work in and as configurable as it is. Anytime someone asks for a high end case recommendation I think back to just how simple and easy that thing is to work with/in and I find it hard to recommend anything else.

My wife and kids are plenty enough for me... Unless you want to do all my chores for me.

Well of course nothing can go completely smoothly, huh? Last night one of the two hard drives just up and crapped the bed. At least it was the one with all my games loaded and not the OS. The only thing I'm wary of now is that I bought them at the same time... I'm afraid they came from the same faulty batch and that the other will bite it too.

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait and see. (and RMA the dead one)

I suppose it could have been worse.

Just an FYI, tons of people have posted on eVGA's forum about SATA issues with that mobo. Might be worth checking into.

Sorry I'm a little late to the thread.

Regular DVI only has official bandwidth to support 1600x1200. When the widescreen 24" monitors like the Dell 2405 came out, they modified the spec a little, and stole enough of the vertical blank time to send the extra pixels. (LCDs don't really need a vertical blank anyway, so it worked well.) But that's as far as they can go... 1920x1200x60fps is absolutely taxing a DVI port to its limits.

Dual-link DVI just doubles up on the number of signal wires. It's sort of like sending two 1920x1200 signals at once. I don't remember the resolution of the 30" screens, but I bet they're very close to the limit of dual-link, and going much further is going to require yet another new standard.

That is such... ridiculous power. Do you see a noticeable improvement with the physics card? I wasn't even aware that such a thing was on the market until you mentioned it in your list. Anyways sweet machine, it rivals the power of the newest Voodoo PCs, and probably cost you far less.