the order of L33Tness goes from best to worst GTX, GTS, GT, GS. (as far as nvidia cards go anyways) It's still cheap even with sales tax. Cheaper than getting it from the other stores with sales tax so... what the heck are you talking about again? Also, I would prefer to live in a place with sales tax. It's great to have no tax when you're a kid, but as soon as you start having income tax... Holy fscking christ! Stupid Oregon... Apparently, newegg is also in TN, not just CA.

Offtopic, but I think sales tax or some kind of consumption tax should be the ONLY tax. That way you are taxed on how much you consume, not how much money you make, etc. Tax people on how much they take from society, not on how much they give!

EDIT: oh, it's not just adding to the price, there is a huge performance increase between the levels. Go to gpureview.com and play with the compare cards section for awhile if you're interested.

Nice, too bad I don't have $300 for a processor... Besides, if I ever did a cpu upgrade after c2d, it would be one o' them 45nm cpus intel is promising soon. O_O

well, I would say, get started with that, and see if you like it. I am fine with the on board audio on my machines. Also, being that the quality is too important, save some money.

Also, my laptop is here, and I am posting from it right now.

so was stock cooling enough?

liazon: unfortunately not. I have a 600MHz overclock (at 2.7GHz) and it almost reaches 60 under load. I'd really like to see the temps stay under 50. I'm saving up in hopes of going liquid though, then I can REALLY cook things. =D

dinho: Uh, all hdd's should work with any case, they don't have different sizes. (except the laptop ones) Generally tool-less hdd bays work with metal rails - they have a little poinked in things that you stick in the screw holes of the hdd and then you just.. slide it in the cage. My case took me about 2-30 minutes or so. I really <3 this case - flip down sides make for the easiest mobo install I've ever done. The lower hdd cage turns and moves out so you can get to the hdd's really easily. My case's instructions were about as lengthy as a hotel brochure so they were utterly useless as well, but luckily I was able to figure out everything by myself - it was pretty straighforward. FRIGGIN' HUGE so lots of room inside too, fits my 8800GTS with room to spare and I read reviews that said the even huger GTX fits okay. My only real complaints with this case is there is no way to control the fans, they just run at max speed all the time (loud! will have to get a fan controller) and that it's farking heavy. Really good build quality and the hugeness make for heavy cases I suppose.

I took pics! They are still on the camera though.