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6. What components are used?

Two Sapphire 5850HDs in Crossfire drive the graphics for this machine, with a six-core Phenom II Black beating inside the MSI 790FX motherboard. A modded 900watt Coolermaster ULTIMATE supplies all the components with their juice.

For storage I chose two WD Caviar Black drives, each a terabyte.   The CPU and GPUs are liquid cooled using Koolance hardware and dual DDC pumps.

7. Why ATI or NVIDIA, why Intel or AMD?

This rig was built to show off the might of team Ruby, adorned in Sapphire's colors.  I was looking for AMD cards this time around because I was greatly impressed by my media center's little 5750.  That card may look small next to its bigger brothers but in games you wouldn't be able to tell! 

The high performance at low temps really impressed me, and it had been a while since I used a Radeon in my builds as I have been an NVIDIA junky as of late.