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A few improvements:
1. Get this eVGA Core 216 video card instead, with the newer 55 nm GPU for $10 less.
2. Substitute this PC P&C 750W PSU if you can stand the red color through your clear side panel (at $80, it's hard to beat). Since PSUs of 1000W and above are quite expensive, don't go there until you decide on and carefully plan out an extreme graphics solution. 750W can power a single 4870x2 or GTX 295, so you're good for any single graphics card for a while. This is not a great future proof suggestion, but I'd rather not fork out big coin for a massive PSU just yet, and what I've recommended is extremely good value. I'm sure someone else would be willing to buy it from you in the future because it is of such high quality (as long as they have a solid side panel)... 
3. This G.Skill Pi Black DDR3 has slightly better latency for about the same price.
4. This Mushkin DDR3 has better latency for $23 more.
5. Get the Caviar Black 640GB (the AALS version)--it's faster than the AAKS for $10 more: link.
6. This Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 1366RT is a better cooler for $13 more.
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