| Dinges said: Why are you getting Vista? That's ridiculous. Windows 7 is so much better. |
Quoting this for truth.
And a single 5850 is an excellent card for 2560x1600. The 5870 will get you playable framerates on an additional few games, but I wouldn't pay the extra $100 over the 5850 even at that resolution.
As for the rest: DO NOT buy an i7-920 (or any LGA1366 CPU) for gaming. Games don't yet make use of the hyperthreading feature that makes the 920 command a premium. Buy the cheaper i5-750 instead with a Gigabyte GA-P55 series mobo, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and a good case and PSU. I'm not terribly familiar with European prices, but I could throw something together for you that would probably go under your budget.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
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