Build advice $750us Needs everything

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 2-3 days BUDGET RANGE: $750-$799.99 INCLUDING shipping

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, Programming, Photoshop, Movies, Internet

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: OS

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg.com only. I am using their credit card for this purchase.

PARTS PREFERENCES: n/a don't really care, looking for value/performance/in budget

OVERCLOCKING: Yes SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Capable Mobo, single card for right now

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1680 x 1050 or higher

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Yep I need everything and don't have a ton of money. My alternative right now is getting a laptop for the same price with the ATI 4650 in it. (yikes in a bad way)

Here are some things I'd like but that are not required:
1. Quiet
2. Few or No LED lights
3. GTX275 or ATI4890 (I know I'm reaching here)

LGA 775 or AM3 ?

Thanks for the help, any questions please let me know.

edit:
Would like 4+GB of ram. Not sure on DDR2 or 3 yet because it'll all have to fit into the budget.

This comes to about $840 with MIR

Obviously its a little higher than your budget, but you can fix this by dropping down to a smaller video card. It depends on your level of gaming. The HD4850 would be a good second choice and would save you about 50 bucks, bringing you within your budget.

However, I did not look for combo deals, and free shipping deals, just benchmark products that would suit you well, im am confident that with a little time you could get all these products at newegg within your budget through combo deals and whatnot.

Edit: If you dropping down to a HD4850, you could also go with a lower wattage PSU, like the Antec EA500, saving you some more money there.

Yea I just put down the core components, no paripheals, Getting an Xfire board would stretch your budget a little bit, because not only would the mobo cost more, but you would need to have an adequate PSU. Xfiring 2 HD4850 would be fine with the PSU I linked above, the 650TX, however if you were to get an HD4870 now, you would need to step up the PSU if you want to xfire.

Hmmm... the 750TX is only $20 more, and I could hold off on OC'ing for a while and save $45 on the CPU cooler.... that leaves $25 for the mobo?

Tough choices ><

edit--

oo nice mobo for slightly more $$ and with the other savings we found I think that could really work well.

Basically looks good.
Here's the few changes I made:
1. Added keyboard/mouse and DVD writer
2. Changed case to Centurion 5 for slight savings
3. Upp'd to 750tx psu
4. Took off the 3rd party cooler

Total before shipping is $870 which is a bit over, but not terrible.

Thinking that in the future I can get the 2nd 4850, or just get 2 of whatever is cheap at the time (looking at 6-8 months or even a year later) Can also get the third party cooler at that time.

Ok one last thing.
How about this CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103680

and this monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824009127

CPU is only a dual, but has good clock speeds.
Monitor is smaller size and slightly less res, but 1680x1050 isn't too bad.

Plus brings price down to 801 before shipping which looks better vs my budget.

Think it would be a terrible performance hit in x3 vs x2 cpu?
Also is the ASUS monitor better enough to warrant the extra $50?

That second mobo Transmaniacon listed is DDR2. For the best upgade path you want DDR3. Let me see what I can come up with. I'll include combos.

EDI* Doh, you mentioned that Trans. Sorry. Still gonna see what I can come up with.

AMDThunder's build is good, but you don't want a green drive as you main system drive. This drive is very fast and saves you another $10.

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM $54.99

The CPU + RAM combo isn't available any more either.