[phadyd]

Yeah I agree with howling in the fact that a single card is better then dual or even triple cards, you get at most a 10% increase in proformance and you can only use one monitor. I dont know about you guys but I like to watch a movie, raid, and surf the net at the same time, sometimes ill play CS while a boss fight is being explained. Anyways, I have always been happy with Nvidia, but there are certain vendors I would never use. Get the best single GPU you can afford and get a CPU that is Quad core that is easly overclockable, I recomend a Q9450 which is very cheap and easy to OC to 3.4GHz. Also make sure you have a MotherBoard that has overclocking technology Nvidia is one of the frontrunners in this new trend. As to your HDD and its RPMs faster is better but also you could by 4 cheap 80g drives and raid them and probly have more speed and space then getting 1 WD 74g raptor and spend the same amount of money. ~ phadyd