My new system is on order

Don't forget the state-of-the-art Auditory Feedback Cooling Confirmation (£15.00 for extra loud fans, so you can hear the quality cooling they're providing for you)

Seriously, do you need them? Extra fans isn't necesarily a good thing. I'd much rather have a silent machine that's "cool enough" than one that sounds like a vaccuum cleaner just to run a couple of degrees cooler. On that note, if possible always go for the 120mm fans over the 80mm ones, the 120mm provide the same cooling power at a slower rotation, leading to much less noise. The smaller the fans, the higher-pitch their noise is, and the harder they are to ignore.
(The 1.5" fans in a 1U rackmount server case are the absolute *worst* when it comes to noise. You'd gladly go Van Gogh after spending any extended time in a room with those puppies)



Eh? Any modern machine uses SATA these days, which are almost the same size by default... Most likely the only cable affected by this will be the floppy cable, if you even got one of those.



Professional wiring? As opposed to having the guy from the mailroom slap 'em in? Good thermal compound can be worth it though, provided that they use it sparingly and not slather a thick layer on like unfortunately way too many people do these days. That was one of the biggest problem with the first intel mac laptops - too much cooling goop, which lead to chronic overheating problems.

But anyway, hardware wise it sounds like a pretty nice rig. Let us know how those LEDs work out for ya. :-)