Ordered the goodies for my new PC...

[Robin Hood]

Antec Lanboy Case

ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor

CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 Video Card

CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

4 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drives in a RAID 5 as my storage drive

And to top it all off...

2 x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drives in a RAID 0 as my boot drive!! Can anyone say INSTA-BOOT!! Big programs like Photoshop that take my current computer 20-30 seconds to load should now load in about 2-3 seconds!!

[Ardbeg... innit]

You will LOVE booting off the Vertex. I have not regretted in the least the extra bucks/Gb the SSD I put into my machine this summer cost me. Enjoy!

BTW- I also love UEFI, I am constantly tweaking the power profile in anticipation of the day's workload. Dialing the power down to a minimum if it will mostly be used for text, email, internet usage, or kicking it into overdrive for heavy duty number crunching. Even though its by far a more powerful computer than my previous, my electric bills are noticeably smaller.