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est:
I wouldn't even spring for two 4870s.  Either one 4870 or two 4850s is the best price-performance gfx dealybobber at the moment.  Although, looking at the date on the original post it is possible they were not about at the time & you have already bought a gtx280 or two by now.

3Z3VH:
I just finished watercooling my PC, and it is super quiet now.  Seriously, I get more noise from my hard drives spinning (7200RPM drives even, not 10k RPM monsters) than from the 4x 120mm fans in my case.  Also, I got the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W PSU, and it makes no noise at all.  I went with all Enermax Enlobal (Magnetic) Bearing fans because they are so silent.  There isn't really a need for a full passive setup unless you have the case right next to your ear at all times.  Just get the right components, and you will not hear a peep out of your computer.

Here is a peek inside mine... it isn't 100% done yet as I have to drill a hole in my case to mount the fill-port, rather than leaving it flopped over the other tube like that.  Also, sorry for the image quality, I took the picture with my iPhone, and half the lights in the room were off.

MarkTBSc:
For anyone who's rebuilding their machine, adding extra drives, reinstalling the operating system... If you have anything that's important to you, like photos or your email backup or anythng, be sure you copy it off onto disks before starting work. I've just done a complete rebuild and I was sure all my important data was on my 120Gb ide hard disk. It turned out it wasn't and I formatted the drive containing six years worth of photos and eight years worth of email.

The pain is immense.

Thankfully I chose to dual-boot linux so I have access to a lot of undelete software. I'll have to see what I can do.

3Z3VH:
Best drive and partition recovery software I have ever used was something called TestDisk.  It is cross-platform, so you can find it for whatever OS you need, but I got the best results booting from DOS or Linux (without X) and running it.  It certainly isn't a pretty program, but it gets the job done, and it gets it done well.

I have also been told that TestDisk comes with Knoppix, but I have never tried, so YMMV.

Fletch:
Well, I don't have an infinite budget, but a small budget does stretch pretty far when I want to throw money at a computer. I haven't bought anything yet, mainly due to the amazing number of people trying to get me to buy something reasonably priced. (3, - 6,000 rmb, instead of 16, - 20,000 rmb)
I've never been in a country where everyone is so convinced they know what you want to buy better than they do - to the point where they will order what you didn't want. :x

I'm currently trying to get a computer that will reasonably support upgrading to a second gtx280 in the future. I saw it done on the interwebs. (can't find it now)

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