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It took a few tries, but eventually, for whatever reason, it worked! THanks a bunch. I am purring along fine now.

OKay, well bummer. I set up the RST with the 60 gb SSD accelerating the HDD. Done. However, when I try to add the 120gb SSD to the computer, it fails to boot. I just get the blinking cursor in teh top left of the screen. If I try to force boot from the HDD all I get is a BSOD and data...

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So I just built a new system with a 120gb SSD. I installed the OS and everything was great, until I decided I wanted to play more than one or two games at a time (damn you B3, MW3, TOR, Skyrim, etc.). :( So I bought a 1TB HDD thinking I could simply use the Intel Smart Response Tech on them...

Two 560 ti in sli would be better the 570 certainly, but that would add about $150 to the build, $100 with the reduction in ram. Sort of at my upper most ceiling. I also sort of figured I could pick up another 570 down the road and run that in sli if need be. Future proof if you will.

16 gb ram is definitely overkill, but the price differential is about 40 bucks so, eh. I suppose I could down shift on that and bank it for more ram as needed in the future. The price points would seem to only get better.

So I am building a gaming rig. Does this look like a good build? I am thinking about 1,900 for the whole build right now. Please be cruel. EDIT: Added Links. Looks like the difference between the 2500k and the 2600k is about $60, but the difference between the 570 and the 580 is about...