Phew... glad I showed you guys. The IDE was an oversight... I will add a SATA optical drive. Yes, I will be O.C.ing this rig. 3.8ghz seems reasonable enough.

Why is the memory overkill, iyo?

"realview" in solidworks is actually not very useful, for me. The gamer cards have been quite good in the past and I've heard that ATI and NV have somewhat slowed (drastically?) performance drivers for the "workstation" graphic cards.

No Idea about the discounts, but I like them. I wish I could buy this locally for the same price.... I would even pay taxes, but I can't get a decent i-5 rig for under $1K here.

Thanks for looking!