Honestly I don't know why I asked. Kinda obvious coming from you. You thinkin' about a raid card?

No RAID card in the plans. I'm not sure what is in the plans.
My i7 975 is pretty mediocre. Getting a really competitive chip is the roll of the dice. Maybe a Xeon????????
4870 GPUs are old news....4870 X2 isn't enough of a jump up.
4890s aren't enough of a jump up.
The SS is old news so I probably need to think about a new cooling technology.
Rampage II Extreme boards are old news....I think I can use them to make two really nice email rigs. :Dizzy:

Your main problem is that you need lower temps :D. Either get off your arse and order a cascade, or suck it up and get a set of pots and a dewar. :blink: Plus I know you love to here that you need to spend more money, but you should probably get you a classified to see if that 975 is really just "ok". Plus if you do buy another, the xeons seem to be clocking like mad. W3540 + Classified seems to do the trick just right.

I see you are at a crossroads. You are at the level of benching now to where it's either stay the course, or start spending alot more money. For some benches a set of 295's are gonna be best. For others 4890's are, and maybe 285's for another. Plus you are probably to the point of needing to start vmodding your vga's and think about makin them cold too. Either way, this is what I think. I kinda saw this coming. You are now to the point of not being satisfied and its time to move up again to the next level. I bet you just love spending more money :D

I know the feeling Steve. Dice or LN2 may get another 100Mhz or so from your CPU. I beleive this CPU is just average OCer that I have. I have not had it under cold as much as the 965 R2E combo but from the initial testing I beleive I would have been better off with a 3540 than the 975. I am hoping to get the 965 on the Classified this upcaomingw weekend to test with Ln2 this will surely tell me if the classified is that much better than the R2E or if I am just CPU limited.

I'm glad we have some variety hardware on the forum, it makes for excellent comparisons between vendors. So? fight12 u slip the wife some chocolates yet so you can bench?