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Have you considered the i5 750? That is a beastly chip and can be found for relatively cheap. If you are lucky enought to have a Micro Center near you, they are going for $149 their. And a good overclocking P55 board is much less than the X58 motherboard. I think it would be a nice upgrade...

I bought those very same G Skills 2 weeks ago to pair up with my EVGA P55 mATX and I7 860. I picked them mainly because the voltage required is 1.5v. Everything else is using 1.65v. Also the color on the heatspread goes well with my color scheme. I am able to run mine on stock voltage.

The Corsair HX1000 is also an excellent PSU and will be plenty for just about any set up you can imagine

Corsair VX550 for $62 after $20 rebate. This would run it and leave room to add more

You probably could run it, but if you plan on adding more HDD's and high overclocks, etc. you will cutting it very close.

What is your budget? This Thermaltake would be enough and is $29 after rebate. Or maybe look into the Corsair HX520/VX550 PSU's if one of those fits your budget. Provantage.com always has rebates on the Corsair PSU's, usually $10 or $20 off.

No, it will run exactly the same as both slots are x16. I would throw in a small fan (maybe 60mm or 80mm) and point it right at the NB heatsink or get an aftermarket NB heatsink.

I would also go with the Gigabyte P45-UD3P as dbcooper1 suggested. It is an awesome overclocker and will handle x2 4870's just fine.

My mistake, my mistake, it was late last night and I was reading everything all wrong :confused:. Maybe I was thinking the power draw on those links were just for the GPU alone, but 600w is still cutting it close. Especially if overclocking will be done to the GPU and CPU.

Adding the RAID card will have no bearing on the PCI-E lane speeds. You only need to worry about that when setting up Cross Fire, in which case both gpu's will run at x8 and x8. Even then, there have been several tests showing the difference between x16/x16 and x8/x8 is negligible. Since you...

Definitely go with Gigabyte EP45 UD3P. These boards have been getting high FSB speeds with the Q9550 in particular, taking them to 4.0ghz pretty easily. LINK Only $115 after rebate and by far the best board for that price!

It is a great PSU but if you are getting it from newegg you are paying way too much. You can get the Corsair 750TX for $80 after rebate from Provantage.com. Same PSU, just bigger and badder :) for the same price as neweggs 650TX :D

Here is a visual for you: Power consumption is 198 watts at idle and 428w at load hardwarecanucks And here. straight from anandtech's reviews: Idle power at 249w and load power is 452w LINK I dont think your 600w PSU meets the requirements to run this card Jephph.

225 watts is IDLE power draw on this card. If the card is bought for gaming in mind, then it will draw a lot more power than that. Check out this review from guru3d. It says System in IDLE = 226w System with GPU in FULL stress = 416 watts. Come on guys, lets get real here, this is an SLI set...

Ummm... well it says minimum system requirements is a 680w PSU. Just because because a PSU is rated for 550w doesnt guarantee it will run at that wattage for its entire lifespan. Here is a link: LINK Just read the system requirements section! Here is a review from hardwarecanucks...