This is my current system, self-built in February this year (and added to occasionally since then).

CPU: Core i7 940
MB: Gigabyte EX58-DS4
RAM: 12Gb Corsair DDR3 667MHz
GPU: ATI Radeon 4800, 512Mb GDDR5
HDD: mixture of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, all 7200 RPM, 1Tb RAID 1, 1Tb standard disk space
MONITORS: NEC SpectraView Reference 2690 (1920x1200), Samsung SyncMaster XL20 (1600 x 1200).

The only glitches I've had with it were GPU freezes in Poser (no idea why) and in Photoshop (dealing with very, very large image files). Recent driver updates appear to have rectified the problem.

The system runs slightly overclocked at 3.06GHz with no problems.

The only thing I'd do different is the GPU: the ATI Radeon 4800 runs very hot and doubling up via Crossfire would cause real cooling problems.

Final note: you will always find problems posted on technical forums, that's what they're for. In my experience 'technical problems' are very often 'I did something stupid but I won't admit it' problems. If you're in any doubt about your abilities as a system builder, there are plenty of places on the web that will let you specify what you want and will put it all together for you. They'll charge you for that, but it's cheaper than frying a CPU, motherboard, RAM chips etc.

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Windows 10 x64 Pro - Intel Xeon E5450 @ 3.00GHz (x2)

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