So a year has passed. My system has been upgraded somewhat:

i7 965x
Rampage III asus Board
6GB Dominator ram
2 x 500GB Samsung F3 in raid
1 x CT128M SSD

2 x Asus GTX570 DCII
Corsair 750w PSU
Lian Li pc-p80


The CPU and the MB are both water cooled with a custom loop. (see pictures below).
The i7 is overclocked to 4.3Ghz and the 2 graphics cards are also pushed a little.

The difference between this and the last system is quite extreme. To give an example decoding a dvd took nearly 40 minutes with the old i5 system and now takes only 16 - 18. Gaming wise the 2 nvidia cards really do make a huge difference.

Perhaps the only downside is the heat this system kicks out! Sitting here with the system on and two monitors kicking out their own heat I am near to sweating, so roll on winter and stay tuned for the Ivybridge system that is bound to happen once Intel get their butts in gear.