PCPartPicker? Never heard of it. I do all of my research the old fashioned way, by digging through Google search results. Though for actual purchase, I normally jump straight to NewEgg and call it a day; less hassle. Good choice on Nvidia for the GPU though, better support from appropriate content-production software. I would probably ditch the Seagate for a Samsung Spinpoint or a WD Caviar Black. SanDisk thus far seems to have a decent track record with SSDs, but I'd personally go with Crucial M4, Samsung 830/840, or Plextor M5.

Quote Originally Posted by Cortexian View Post
I'm going water cooling so I don't care about the LP memory, and the heatsinks on the normal Vengeance and Dominator memory DO actually dissipate slightly more heat than the LP modules. I'm not going to water cool the memory so the nice heatsinks on the memory are handy. They also look great when you have a bank of Platinum modules installed.

The lightbars on the Dominator memory are hot as well.
I have water cooling. Sure, it's closed loop, but I chose the LP Vengeance entirely on its looks, since for the price there wasn't anything better performance-wise. If your RAM is actually overheating at all, then you either have an airflow problem in your build or you've pushed the overclocking too far, as RAM doesn't generally get that hot.

I just don't see how you can justify the price jump for Dominators given the lack of any appreciable benefit. If you were building an AMD rig (lol, Freelancer not using Intel/Nvidia...rich), sure.