What can I drop to get this rig under $2000?

[Lulz]

Munkeh111 said:

disolitude said:
When making a gaming rig, your GPU cost should be roughly equal to the cost of everything else.

For example, the rig below will be able to run games on single or multiple monitors for many years to come:

Phenom II X4 965 - $99
MSI 970 G46 SLI mobo - $89
8 GB 1600 MHz 9-9-9-24 ram - $70
700 Watt brand name SLI capable PSU - $80
Brand name mid tower case - $70
120 GB SSD as boot drive - $90
1 TB HDD - $60

and

GTX 760 4 GB X 2 in SLI = $600

$1158 total

Would you not be better off getting 1 780 for now? Since that will be more than capable of 1080p 60fps at least for the next few years and then can be upgraded later

I was thinking the same thing. the 780 is easily good enough to max any  game that's already out, and probably anything that will be released in the near future.