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A lot of gamer cases vent out the top. For example; http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/... I think its to deal with the PSU being on the bottom of the case or to have space for the liquid cooling radiator inside the case.

The mouse, a Razor Lachesis turned out to be only slightly more useful as a mouse than a very expensive brick. Damn I wish I could find my receipt for that plastic lump of garbage.

I've never used a lachesis, so can't comment on it specifically, but I had a razor copperhead, which I absolutely loved. When it died after a couple years I ordered another one, but one of its buttons was.. 'wonky' (it was possible to press the button without triggering it if you did so near the edge -- my original never had that issue. I returned it as defective. But couldn't get it exchanged as they didn't have another. And it appears to be discontinued now(?)

I see they've got an ergo left deathadder though, so I might give that a try... or one of their other ambi-dextrous models. I was happy enough with my original copperhead to give them the benefit of the doubt when the 2nd one was wonky. But I won't tolerate junk... so if it doesn't work well I'd return it. And I plan to order locally, even if it costs a bit more to make a possible return more convenient.

I have searched a few times and never seen a left handed gaming keyboard, though some gimmicks claim to be left handed friendly by allowing detachment of the gaming controls, although the layout of the buttons means you would need surgery to remove your thumb and reattach it on the other side of your hand.

I use an ideazon fang, but its evidently been recently discontinued. Its a stand alone pad, but its symmetrical for left/right use -- it doesn't matter where your thumb is :)

Both the "thermaltake flareboard" and "cyber snipa game pad v2" look like possible alternatives.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1158&ID=1684
http://www.cybersnipa.com/us/gaming-keyboards/gamepad.php

The ergodex dx1 is pretty neat looking too, but I haven't tried one.
http://www.ergodex.com/mainpage.htm

Better add another monitor so you can compute while you compute and not worry about a second monitor or x session.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1257&ID=1481

I agree. A thermaltake armor can take theoretically 11x 2tb drives....

and with the fans its easy to keep cool. it costs 150 or so, but it solved all my problems. i was looking into port multipliers in 2007 or so and it was far cheaper to just buy a high quality case. It is the best case i have ever owned and i fully expect to have it for 10 years or until they kill atx.

Personally i have about 9 hard drives in it currently and its nice and cool.

i spent a bit looking for a good solution to a similar problem and while testing and revwing different sata docking stations

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?C=1346

came out to be over all the most reliable dock i've found

the one from think geek was annoyingly flaky

While that may be true with current revisions, I see no reason why it couldn't continue to operate off of +5V standby power, or, failing that, a wall-wart. If my power supply is a typical example, then there's at least 15 watts available on the +5VSB rail when the computer is in S3 sleep. It takes no great leap of imagination to implement switching to an alternate power source when a change in the ACPI power state is observed. The only reason this "Somniloquy" is able to operate while the computer is in stanby/sleep-mode is the fact that there is still bus power supplied to the USB ports.

jdb2

I'd go with four of AMD's upcoming Barcelona quadcore CPUs, max out the RAM capacity, a pair of the upcoming ATI R600 video cards in Crossfire mode, one or two 30" widescreen monitors (I'm not sold on the dual screen thing), a RAID of those new 32GB Sandisk flash drives for the boot partition and a RAID of the upcoming terabyte SATA HDs for data storage so I'd never have to delete MythTV HDTV recordings (using a 3Ware SATA RAID controller?), at least a couple of HD-5500 HDTV tuners, dual boot 64-bit Vista Ultimate (for games) and Fedora 7 (for everything else, running 32-bit WinXP in a KVM instance when I have to), maybe a X-Fi audio card, probably a PC Power & Cooling kilowatt power supply, a Blu-ray burner, watercooling by DangerDen, and a suitable case (maybe a Thermaltake Mozart TX?).

And a naquada generator so I could power it all off-the-grid.

Alternatively, a Tyan Personal Supercomputer might be fun too.

Thermaltake has had a memory liquid cooling heatsink for a while now.

Yeah, I've long had a similar Thermaltake product and people at LANs often comment on the "jet engine" that I have cooling my CPU.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/cooler/retai l/cl-p0114/cl-p0114.asp