tj_extreme
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So this morning my worst nightmare came true. The computer wouldn't turn on. So after about 1/2 hour of troubleshooting, I decided to take a 6950 out. It still wouldn't boot. So I took the other one out and put my HTPC card in it. Still nothing. Changed out the RAM. Nothing. Tested the PSU, it's fine. All my drives are good as well. After about another hour, it dawned on me. The motherboard took a ****. So I had to get on the old P67A-UD3-B3 that I kept after the whole RMA fiasco with Gigabyte. I set everything up (but with a 6450 in it this time), and it booted. I got to my desktop, made sure I didn't lose any data, then proceeded to shut it down and install one 6950 at a time. Once again, it refuses to boot. Not only is my motherboard bad, but so are both of my (good) GPU's. Can't make a warranty claim on either of them. So now I'm stuck with a 6450, and the UD3 board. Which means no 5.0+ for my 2600k Around the end of April I'm going to start building a new one, and give this one to a friend. Assuming Ivy is out by then, and there are some new Kepler cards out, what should I throw into it? I'm willing to spend about $1,500 on it, but if I need to I can bump it up to $2,000. That price doesn't include an OS, Keyboard/Mouse, Monitor, etc. Just the tower. I'd also like it to be a full tower case, for my ever expanding collection of drives.