The SLI Monster™

After receiving two NVidia GeForce 8600GTS cards for free, I decided to use them for something I had never experimented with before: multi-GPU setup with SLI.
Originally, I had an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board for the task, but the board turned out to be a dud. I replaced it with a similar but newer A8N-SLI Premium, which ran well enough. It had an AMD Athlon64 x2 4200+ CPU.
I ended up placing a smarty pants offer on a new board which I then later won. This was an M2N-SLI Deluxe, which was quite a bit newer and had a much faster 6000+ CPU on it.
I won the board that is in it now, a P5N-E SLI, by putting the opening bid and being the only bidder. I didn't really want the board, but I was after the CPU that was on it, which is one of the best CPUs for the platform.

Specifications/Notable Features

Case: Corsair Carbide SPEC-01
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
CPU: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 4460, 4 cores/4 threads
RAM: 8 GB GSkill DDR3-1866 (2 x 4 GB)
Boot drive: 256 GB SanDisk X110 SSD
Storage drive: 256 GB SanDisk X110 SSD
Optical drives: LG DVD burner
Floppy drives: None
Video card: 2x Asus GeForce 8600GTS Silent
Displays: 19" 16:9 NEC MultiSync 1940WCXM, DVI
Speakers: None
Keyboard+mouse: Dell USB keyboard + RadioShack trackball
Operating system: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit