Need Recommendations on a New Build

[FourOh]

It seems that the HPs have a much better stock cooling solution over the Dells. I really like the price of that z600 dual hex you found Scole.

Looks like a very good alternative to the Dell T5500. The cooling strategy looks much better; the only drawback I see is the smaller and slightly less efficient PSU (650W @ 85% vs 875W @ 88%). You might have trouble running a 7950/280 and you would certainly have failures with 7970/280X on this platform, but it has enough power for a mid-range AMD card or any newer Nvidia GPU up to GTX 980. For this reason I've been sticking with the Dell T5500 - I need somewhere to put my Tahiti cards!