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8. Does your PC life up to your expectation ?
Yes , it takes every game with pleasure, and the MSI motherboard is great.

9. What's the best part of your rig?

CPU Core i7 940 and my two GeForce GTX 280's

10. What sucks and should not have been bought?

10:Nothing , everything works great.

11. Did you modify anything ?  cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.

The x58 chipset cooling was not so good (80° under load) so I removed the copper heatsink , cleaned everything and put some artic silver 5 on the x58 and Southbridge and reinstalled the copper heartsick with bolts and plastic washers , not with the plastic push-on's. (Now the x58 chipset Northbridge is 52° under load)

I also put new case fans in the casing (double barred with three step speed regulators on them.

Put two Scythe S-Flex 1600 directly on to the GPU's --  mounting them in the holes of the expansions slots
Replaced the original side fan of the case by the Antec big Boy 200 because it has a speed regulator. Put small wheels under the casing as well.

12. Your 3DMark06 / 3DMark Vantage score (P+GPU)

12: No 3DMark 06 score but my 3DMark vantage score is P28162.

Cinebench10 score is 22847.
Cinebench 9.5 score is 3146.

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