Grats and Welcome aboard!

Look forward to meeting you all in game very soon!

Heh. I'm sorry I wasnt trying to be a total jek face about it. I have SO MUCH bad experience with friends getting sucked into pyramid schemes and me having to sit through a sales talk with them to turn them down nicely. I just feel bad saying no to a friend.

I got sucked into amway/quickstar once. Ugh.

I shouldnt project all that on you though. Heh. Sorry. Obviously I wish you success.

I personally feel bad for anyone that got into Amway/Quickstar, I won't go into detail in regards to Anyway, on the other hand apology accepted and thank you for wishing me success.

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse but since you mentioned “pyramid scheme I feel obligated to state the difference between a Pyramid Scheme and a Legitimate Network Marketing Company. There are a lot of people that don’t understand the difference.

A pyramid scheme can be defined as a fraudulent money-making scheme that is based on a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme without a legitimate product or service being delivered. Eventually the number of new recruits fails to sustain the payment structure and the scheme collapses with most people losing the money they paid in.
 
In a more practical sense, probably the easiest way to identify pyramid schemes is firstly there is no legitimate product or service involved (i.e. you do not get a legitimate product in return for your initial investment). The second way to identify pyramid schemes is that you do not get a financial return unless you have successfully introduced a number of new recruits into the pyramid. Basically, pyramid schemes concentrate on the money that you could earn by recruiting new people into the pyramid and generally ignore the marketing and selling of any products or services.

I find myself to be a person with high values and I would never associate myself with criminal activity.

The concept behind network marketing is a distribution model that allows a company to sell their products directly to the consumer by choosing to use a word of mouth approach (networking) instead of advertising through traditional streams (e.g. media). Therefore instead of paying the media for advertising, network marketing companies are structured to reward distributors through commission in return for selling their products and finding new customers.

Therefore the main focus of a network marketing company is product distribution. In fact, in a legitimate network marketing company, distributors are not required to recruit new distributors in order to earn a commission; they can earn money purely by selling the company’s product.

Although distributors can choose to sell the company’s products to earn their commissions, not everybody wants to be a sales person and therefore choose to recruit more distributors into their organization as a means to build their referral base. Not only does this create a group of loyal customers, it also allows you to leverage the efforts of others to create a residual stream of income.

I Hope this helps to clarify the difference.

My dad is diabetic and drinks them like soda, I guess some diabetics are different.

I apologize for not making the meeting last night.

I usually attend the midnight releases of popular video games at the local GameStop. The manager allows me to setup a table to give out samples of an all natural energy drink. I had to take the opportunity that was given and I can say it was a good turnout for my business.

I am required to be at the store for 10:00 CST but I do not attend all midnight releases so I will still attend Monday meetings and interviews when I am home.

Voted!

I'm not trying to poke holes in your system or anything.  But this is severe overkill for a gaming rig.  That much RAM and XEON (server) processors are for servers.  Not gaming.  HUGE difference.  Servers are built to be slow, precise, fault tolerant but you trade latency for stability.  They are NOT gaming computers.

If you need a bleeding edge system for something like engineering rendering or a special development app you need requires XEONS with 24GB of RAM  that's one thing.

If you're wanting to play your games at 100+ frames per second with every setting maxed, that's another thing.

The reason I say this is mostly due to the money thing.  You can easily sink 5, 6 7 grand into a machine like this.  Which is like 3 or 400% more cost than the average top of line line gaming rig.  Keeping that in mind, you WILL NOT see a 3 or 400% increase in your gaming experience.  Most of that money is going to sit there quickly losing value.  Tri SLI is also a pretty big waste of money.  That is unless you really want to show off synthetic benchmark scores.  

Now let's say you have 6 or 7 grand burning a hole in your pocket.  Drop 2k on a bad ass gaming computer.  And put the rest in the bank.  Every year put another 500 or $1,000 into getting the top of the line single Graphics card out there.  MAYBE SLI but meh,  And maybe every 2 years or so getting a new CPU.  You're not wasting money that way.  If you sink all your money into a super computer now, you're still going to be outdated in a year or two like everyone else.

Regarding dual or tri SLI or crossfile.. I still haven't seen a cost analysis that shows real world perfomance gains that match the dollars you need to put into it.  Keep in mind, the last two rigs I built were SLI and Crossfire rigs.  None of the games I played even took advantage of DUAL GPU.  I sold my extra video card last time.  I just didn't see the gain.  Heck, a lot of games STILL won't take advantage of multicore CPUs.  Devs build games towards what most people own.  Most people can't afford a super rig like that.  

Just trying to save you some money.  Having a machine like that is worth bragging rights for a year or so.  After that, you're just letting a huge amount of money depreciate.  Fast.

Thank you likwidtek, I honestly appreciate you poking holes into it. Having another set of eyes on specifications and a system setup is always a plus.

As I stated in my last message, I plan on using it for 3D designs etc.

As far as what I am currently using, I built this rig around April of 2008, I spent about 1700 on this setup back then, I probably will be upgrading it slightly as well just for gaming. I love newegg!

XFX 780i nForce motherboard.
Intel 2.4GHz Quad Core
4 Gig Ram
2 – XFX GTX 9800+ Black Edition Video Cards in SLI.
ABS Tagan BZ Series 900W
4 – 250g Western Digital RE hard drives SATA
1 – Lite On DVD Burner
Xclio Case
2 – 24” Sceptre Monitors

The system will be a dual processor setup with 24gigs of ram to start, with the potential to expand to 48gigs. System will have 4 Way SLI support with 4 EVGA GTX590 Fermi 3072Mb 768bit.

Honestly don't have a real reason for Xeno over i7 other then price. I could downgrade the mother board and ram.

Dude! I would cry. lol

I actually felt a lump in my throat and my eyes started to water up.