Good choice =). The 5750 is a good card as well.  Congrats on the new machine

No problems dude.

Are there any other suggestions for highend CPUs?

I live near a Microcenter, which seems to have incredible CPU prices...The i7 750 is actually a little bit cheaper than other chips in the price range...So I am wondering if there are any slightly better chips?

For example, they also have:

Intel i7-930
Intel i7-860
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T AM3 Processor

For a similar price as the 750. Would any of those 3 be better than the 750?

Haha how appropriate, i recently converted from PS3/Xbox 360 gamer to true High End PC gamer... i still adore my PS3 and 360 but wow... playing games like bioshock on a tweaked gaming PC is unreal, 173 frames per sec on maximum details and maximum res... blows consoles out of the water! (no pun)

sign me up here or whatever. i've converted to customize!

I don't think the 1055T is worth it for gaming...  if you don't want to spring for a 1090, I'd go with a Phenom II X4 965 Black - I can't see any games utilizing 6 cores for quite some time, so you'd see better performance with 4 3.4ghz vs 6 2.8ghz cores. I think the 965 black is the best performance for it's price range.

I looked into the 1055T after I posted. The benchmarks have been unsatisfactory.

Going back to CPUs, which would be the best of the 930, 860 or 750? Assuming they are the same price (for me, they are).

I am one of those people who have always been intimidated with the idea of building my own pc so this thread will be a great help if I ever decide to actually try it. Right now I am getting by using my laptop for gaming. It does great running games in 720p and ok in 1080p.

I want to have a respectable gaming rig by the time the witcher 2 or dragon age origins 2 comes out though.

You should get the LGA 1156 variants. The LGA 1366 cpu socket (930) is dead after this generation of hardware. The 860 has hyperthreading whilst the 750 does not as far as wikipedia can tell me. However the LGA 1156 socket can only take 4 core variants of the next generation which is pretty terrible. The AM3 AMD motherboards have forwards compatibility to their bulldozer micro-architecture. Thats the reason why I went AMD in my latest build because good motherboards are too expensive to rebuy every 2 years.

Hello everyone, I just wanted to say that the information on the first page is a good read because i was going to try and build a "future-proof" gaming rig at the end of the year, but now i will stick to only what I need for games that are out now. I really liked the 'more power' build on the first page, and may look into building that, I just have one question, how often do you guys change your cpu? If I went with the i5 am I stuck with it? Do I need a new motherboard if I wanted to upgrade to a newer cpu in a couple of years? I really don't know too much about building pcs. Thank you in advance.

Changing the CPU really depends on what you're doing and the environment developers are aiming at. Its quite likely that there won't be another game which will seriously challenge the i5 for a number of years given the fact that there are still lower spec consoles out there and dual core CPUs are prevalent. If you're more into big intense strategy games then you may find the useful life will be shorter than if you're playing regular shooter/RPG style games for instance.

If you go i5 you are effectively stuck with that platform because AFAIK Intel will only let you run quad core Sandy Bridge and no higher on that platform which makes upgrade effectiveness limited.