I am officially ready for Silent Hunter right now!

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by simsurfer

Just finished building my new game machine:

1. AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor.

2. ASUS M4A79T Deluxe AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

3. mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel

Got the 955 Black Edition myself. If you have the Zalman CPU cooler for that chip you can push it over 3.8GHz very easily. The Asus Crosshair III Formula motherboard is a great mobo for overclocking btw. The only complaint I have about the board is if you enable RAID on the SATA ports then ALL have to be used for RAID....that sucks but I gotta have my 2 X VelociRaptors in a RAID 0....I hate waiting for anything Being that your mobo uses the 790FX chipset it is probably the same way.
Mushkin is good quality memory also so OC'ing your setup should be a breeze but I'm not sure about that mobo. I love ASUS mobo's, that's all I use in my systems.
Did you download the processor driver for that 955 from AMD's website?
Do you have SAS drives? Is that why you got the highpoint controller? If you've never used WD Raptors before you really should give them a try. If they weren't so darn $$ I'd have 3 of them in a RAID 5 setup.
What power supply are you using? I got the Enermax Evo 1.2kW powering my system.
What case? I love my Antec 1200. PLENTY of room to grow in it.
Have you 3DMark06'd your setup? I score > 23,000 on 3DMark06 @ 1920 X 1200....that's insane
I was an ATI guy. Switched to nVidia and have never been happier, especially with the GTX280 OC.