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Hey all, I am speccing up a new system for myself and was just posting to get suggestions / improvments I could make to the following before submitting my order:

Asus Rampage Formula Intel X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £159.99 (£187.99)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF) £94.99 (£111.61)
Intel Quad Core Xeon X3350 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - OEM £204.99 (£240.86)
Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80B Aluminium Super Tower Case £189.99 (£223.24)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £3.99 (£4.69)
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card - Retail £92.99 (£109.26)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £39.99 (£46.99)
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - Retail £72.99 (£85.76)
OCZ ModXStream 900w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £104.99 (£123.36)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £134.99 (£158.61)

Sub Total: £1,099.90
Shipping: £21.75
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT: £196.29
Total : £1,317.94

I will be reusing my two current 36gb raptors in this system temporarily until the new VelociRaptor is released.

I also have a few things I would like clarification on before ordering:

Does the motherboard have support for this 45nm Quad Xeon processor?

Will the Tuniq cooler fit with this motherboard ok (I have read that it is large and some motherboards do not have the clearance around the socket to mount it)?

Does the onboard sound for this motherboard have Full duplex High-definition audio processing at 192KHz/24Bit for ALL Input and Outputs (if so I could save £100 and not have the standalone sound card)?

The reasoning behind the larger version of the lian li case is I ultimately want to get watercooling (in a couple of months), is the heatpipe asembly on the motherboard removable so that i can add waterblocks to the n/b and s/b?

Does the lian li case mount the motherboard the normal way up (m/b tray on the right side of case) or upside down (m/b tray on the left side of case)? I have heard there are some problems with heatpipe motherboards if they are mounted upside down

Will be getting one of the new Nvidia gt200 cards when they do get released but only have an old archaic agp system currently so needed to add a PCIe card to use until then, would a regular 8800GT be ok to game at 1920x1200 in things like COD4 and AoC?

I chose the xeon over the regular quad as I am intending to O/C the system to run at ~3.4Ghz on Air 24/7, is this realistically achievable?

Sorry for all the questions, and thanks in advance for any replies.
 
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