New Gaming Rig Help Appreciated

[Solid_Snake4RD]

SleepWaking said:

Soleron said:

CPU - Fine, but you may want to look at the AMD six-cores (1055T and 1090T) if you're doing any work that can take advantage of it.

Motherboard - Do you absolutely need an SLI board? Only Nvidia chipsets are dead as a family and I wouldn't expect BIOS updates. That is, if you want to upgrade to Bulldozer CPUs next year.

Graphics - WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER FOR SOUTHERN ISLANDS. But if you can't, then GTX 460 SLI is fine, though saying that causes me physical pain as an AMD fan.

RAM - You seriously don't need 8GB. It's a complete waste. Go for 4GB.

I do video and photo editing, but I'm expecting that more and more the GPU will be able to take over all those tasks, maybe I'm a bit too optimistic??

I'm not looking to upgrade my CPU next year or anything else for that matter, I just basically buy a new PC every 2-3 years. Although the pace it's going now I might upgrade slower in the future. 

I'm pretty much set on GTX460, The way I see it the Southern Islands won't be a hell of a lot faster, the thing which they can score big on is bang for your buck. I'm not an fan of either just buy whatever seems to suit me best at the moment, Although I do like the Nvidia partnerships.

Will take the advice of 4 gigs of ram.

yeah try to buy a future proof.no need to waste every 2-3 years

buy one that will atleast do you 4-5 years

i would suggest wait till fall this year and then buy if you don't need it immediately