after hours and hours of one damn thing after another, its finally up and running and online... whew... now im only looking at DAYS to get it all configured like i like it... ugh...
(edit:) heres a pic of the machine while it was still just pieces parts (and when i still had my sanity!)

and this is a closer view of the huge cooler i put in (i put the screwdriver in the shot for scale)... now THAT is what i call a heatsink!
