ok I have decided on a case and unless anybody mentions serious problems this is the case for me take a look heres a link.Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champ1on Series Aluminum Case - FrozenCPU.com now comes the hard part I am caught between two motherboards, one is an abit- fatality an9 32xhttp://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=322and one is an abit aw9d-max, question amd or intel,was going with fatality model video card but they have been discontinued do you have to use ati card if it's set up for crossfire I am going sli but would like to go nvidia due to I have dual lsd and ati does not offer spanning. thx for any help.

Hi von scott

Zalman do extremely effective cooling so the case is gong to be fairly good...looks beasty as well.

If you have a crossfire motherboard, you cannot run sli, just as if you have a sli board, you cannot run crossfire.

AMD or Intel is down to choice these days....so whichever you think is better is going to be your call.
You'll have people who say AMD are going to win, there's no doubt about it.
And then you have the same said about Intel...

I have the Abit AN8 fatal1ty SLi board and won't change it for a good while. This baby's still got miles to go!

I also use and have used Zalman products for years. If you want quiet and cool they really are the leaders imho...and that case looks evil (in a good way )

looks like a nice case