I decided to build a new gaming rig and now I need opinions. I don't need a new screen or tower etc. I'm only replacing the inside, so a motherboard, graphics card, memory, and processor.

What I've come up with:

ASUS M4N98TD EVO - ATX - nForce 980a SLI - Socket AM3 - UDMA133, SATA-300 (RAID), eSATA -  € 107,64

2 Palit GTX 460 -  GF GTX 460 - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 1024 MB GDDR5 - € 189,90 *2 = 379,80

AMD Black Edition  - 1 x AMD Phenom II X4 955 / 3.2 GHz - Socket AM3 - L3 6 MB - Box-  € 130,75

GeIL Black Dragon Quad Channel Kit - 8 GB : 4 x 2 GB - DIMM 240-pins - DDR3 - 1600 MHz / PC3-12800 - € 206,81

Total: € 825

So what do you think? Other suggestions? It's about 200 Euro below my budget so I can spend some more.

Triple channel doesn't work on AMD boards so you should buy one stick more. With four sticks you can get dual channel.

That's odd, well four sticks it is then.

I would suggest you buy a single GTX 470 or a 480 rather than SLI two 460s. Some games have issues with SLI and crossfire. But thats just my suggestion.

I agree buy the single card solution never go SLI or crossfire. As far as cards I'd go ATi 5870 or Nvidia 480 if you can afford them. And its personal preference but 8 gigs of ram is a waste, I'd stick to 4gigs its more than enough to max all games at 1920x1200 AAmax AFmax.Cut some things and get the better video card i say. Also if you did go ati you need to look into another MB and what power supply you are using.

And before i just say that and leave it also depends on what resolution you are gaming at, thats where the GTX480 and GTX470 show a difference, if you doing anything lower than 1920x1200 you should stick with a GTX470 or the ATI counter part. They say since AMD owns ATI now you have better driver compatibility and things like that just throwing that out their.You also save a little on the MB since you dont need SLI dual PCI 2.0 or 2.1 slots, one will do fine.

Check out this benchmark site also, GTX480>ati5870>ati5850>GTX470 on most test.

http://www.techspot.com/review/283-geforce-gtx-400-vs-radeon-hd-5800/

I favor ATI over Nvidia any day though.

I just read this article (it's in Dutch but you can still read the graphs) and it's basically saying that you get a little bit more performance out of 2 GTX460's in SLI than a stand alone GTX480 and that if you were considering the GTX480 you should really look into the option of 2 GTX460's. It's also a little bit cheaper. Now I have 2 8800GT's in SLI and I never ran into any serious problems (only that they are noisy).

Maybe I'll stick to 4 gig of ram then, but I do make custom maps and levels in the Cry-Engine and that always takes up lots of memory (I can't always make what I want now because of memory shortage). Plus I like to use crazy texture mods.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-sli-geforce-gtx-480,2694.html

I think i'll stick with 2 GTx460's in SLI, sorry guys.

If you want future proofing you get 1 GTX 480, and down the road in a few years when the single card isn't enough you SLI that. Currently you are already at the peak of what your system can do without buying a whole new set of cards. Also by the time that a single 480 isn't enough, they will be down in price. But whatever floats your boat.