I emailed Adywan a few weeks ago asking him what kind of hardware he got for his new computer and he told me this:

Hitachi DESKSTAR 2TB 3.5" SATA II 7200RPM 32MB Cache OEM

Akasa AK-968 CPU cooler LGA775 1156 1366

Gigabyte motherboard X58A-UD3R

Intel Core i7 930 CPU 2.8 GHz 8MB LGA1366 45nm

4x Kingston memory 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL8 (8-8-8-24)

Asus GeForce GTX470 Graphics Engine - PCI Express 2.0 1280MB GDDR5

He gave me the prices too, but I won’t post those, but I will tell you that things do cost about 10-20% more in the UK comparably to the US when converting GBP to USD currency.

I thought he had the top-of-the-line processor, but then I went to intel’s website and learned this:
http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=28037

The i7-970 core is the top-of-the-line core for the i7 processor series and is quite a bit more expensive than the other ones and has 6 cores instead of 4. But then I noticed he could have bought the Intel® Core™ i7-950 Processor (8M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel® QPI) for the same price as the i7-930 model according to intel's main comparison website posted above. I don’t know if the website he bought his computer hardware priced the i7 950 core significantly more expensive than the i7 930, Adywan?

I live on a tight budget and am unable to donate to Adywan as much as some people here, but I am saving what money I can and planning on sending it to Adywan sometime in late November to early December so he has enough time to buy the i7 970 CPU without having to pay the increase in sales tax (or Value Added Tax as he calls it) coming in January. I would also like him to max out the RAM capacity of his motherboard. He currently has 16 gigs, and his motherboard specs say it can support up to 24 gigs. I asked him if 16 gigs is enough and he said, “when using FX software these are very RAM intensive so having more RAM the better.” But I don’t think I can do it alone, unless I move back in with my parents. So I am asking for your guy's help.

Adywan hasn’t returned my emails in the last few weeks, but I’m sure he is busy dealing with his Dad now. He told me that he gets hundreds of emails every couple of days and one day he had over 1000 to sort through, so don’t expect him to return your emails promptly.