So far, the monitor, the CPU cooler, and the Blu-ray burner have arrived.  The case has shipped and should get here in a day or two.  The rest of the parts are on the way to my brother in Colorado.  He should get them in a couple days, and then it’ll take about a week to ship them to Japan.

Here are some pics of what’s come so far:

From New Computer

From New Computer

From New Computer

From New Computer

The system has the following parts:

Intel i7 920 2.66 GHz Processor  I was thinking about going with a Quad core processor since I could save money on the CPU, motherboard, and RAM, but I decided to splurge on the new architecture since it is supposed to perform well and I’ll be able to upgrade the CPU later without having to get a new motherboard.  Also, this CPU apparently can do a decent overclock under air cooling – probably up to 3.5-3.8 GHz without much trouble.

Cooler Master HAF 932 Case I probably could have saved money on the case, but I thought this one looked cool. It should give good air flow to keep the components cool.

Scythe Mugen 2 Cooler Most components in Japan are super expensive, but this looks like a nice CPU cooler that was cheaper than what I could get in America.  Right now, the selection isn’t great for LGA 1366 socket coolers, but maybe I got lucky ordering in Japan for this one.  And I hope it fits in my system.

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB Hard Drive I’m gonna move a 500 GB drive from my old computer for storage and a 75 GB drive to use for Ubuntu, so I thought I’d buy this fast drive for my windows drive.  

BFG GTX 260 MaxCore OC2 Only one video card for now.  This one comes with a factory overclock (630 MHz vs. 576 MHz for the reference design). Hopefully,  I can bump it up a little more.

Samsung 2443BW 24 inch LCD Monitor Got this from Amazon.co.jp where it was only $300 bucks and shipped over night for like 2 dollars.  Seems like a good deal for a pretty big monitor. 

Corsair 1000HX Power Supply I probably spent too much on the power supply, but it’ll be good for future upgrades.  If I want, I could add 2 more video cards to run in Tri-SLI.  Also, everywhere I read said not to buy an off-brand power supply.

6 GB (3×2 GB) Patriot Viper 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM Hopefully this is more RAM than I’ll ever need.  I also got the 64-bit version of Windows Vista so that the system can recognize more than 4 GB of memory.  But if I ever want more RAM when the prices go down, my motherboard has 3 more slots where I could put in another 6 GB.  I got 1600 MHz instead of 1333 MHz to give more head room for overclocking.

EVGA x58 SLI Motherboard This can accomodate up to 3 graphics cards and 12 GB of RAM and can handle overclocking.  Of course it has networking, sound, USB onboard.  

LG Blu-ray Burner Not sure if I’ll need a blu-ray burner, but I thought it would be nice to have.  And since I’ll have an HD monitor, I thought it would be good to be able to play HD media.

The total for the system was about $2100 plus $300 for the monitor and $170 for Vista 64.  And I’ll probably have to pay about $100 for my brother to ship all the stuff to me from America.  Hopefully I can start putting this badboy together in a couple weeks.