Thanks for the explanation! I'll go RAID 0.
Still waiting for someone to suggest a good heatsink to use until I go water cooling (even though it will be temporary, maybe a month or two, I'd still like to get the best one).
Also, I really need to know if I should buy a more expensive motherboard since everything else is maxed out; there was a deal on newegg I almost jumped on yesterday which had the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD9 with the case I'm wanting to use, for $200 off. Of course, it's gone today lol. Does something like that motherboard give you better performance or easier overclocking, or is it just bells and whistles? I want a motherboard that is high performance, has good overclocking tools, and is as future proof as possible.