Made me laugh as to the "common" quote. Just how many people have this kind of spec system!?!?!?!?! 
"I set up a common platform, an Intel QX6850-based Asus Striker Extreme Nforce 680i high-end board running at a its defauly 3 GHz CPU / FSB1333 speed water-cooled with Corsair Nautilus 500, with 8 GB of Geil Black Dragon DDR2-800 RAM, running here at DDR2-667 4-4-4-8 setting. Nothing special speed-wise as all three components can do way better, but still a good, stable platform. The GPU was an Asus water cooled GeForce EN8800GTX Aquatank using Thermaltake solution. As for the audio output, Creative 5+1 speaker system was on hand when needed, although Creative Aurvana high-end headphones were sufficient in most cases".
"I set up a common platform, an Intel QX6850-based Asus Striker Extreme Nforce 680i high-end board running at a its defauly 3 GHz CPU / FSB1333 speed water-cooled with Corsair Nautilus 500, with 8 GB of Geil Black Dragon DDR2-800 RAM, running here at DDR2-667 4-4-4-8 setting. Nothing special speed-wise as all three components can do way better, but still a good, stable platform. The GPU was an Asus water cooled GeForce EN8800GTX Aquatank using Thermaltake solution. As for the audio output, Creative 5+1 speaker system was on hand when needed, although Creative Aurvana high-end headphones were sufficient in most cases".
