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- Two HD 4850's are probably cheaper than two 9800GTX's and a bit faster

- Do you really want to go SLI/Crossfire with a 1440x900 monitor and light games such as WoW?

- Without SLI/Crossfire you can do with a cheaper PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $100 (with 30 mail-in rebate it goes to $70), combine that with one HD 4890: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $190 I always recommend one card over SLI/Crossfire.

First a single 4850 or GTS250 is enough to play everything on high at that resolution
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Second you cannot SLI on an AMD chipset, they only support CF making 2 9800GTXs a waste of money as you CANT use them
Third, only dual GTX285s require an 850 watt PSU, for a single card a 550VX is plenty, for 2 4850s a 650TX is plenty but you will be hitting your cpu bottleneck hard at that resolution

now as for part swaps i suggest swapping to the 4850 i linked above, i have it and can run everything on high at 1280x1024, i would swap the case and PSU for an antec 900 and a TP-650, it will allow you to run dual 4850s in the future and the 900 provides far better airflow
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I would swap the HDD for a samsung F3 500GB drive, it is $20 cheaper and faster than a blue.
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and drop the board down to a 790GX, not even 2 5850s in CF took a significant hit at 8x vs 16x CF, it was under 1% in most cases
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And some cheaper gskills ripjaws ram with similar timings but lower voltages which will let you get the timings even tigher
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If you really want to go nVidia and AMD you should drop down to a 770 board and get a GTS250 or a GTX260

I would go with a i5 setup




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Pick up a HD5850 for 259 , Then your set to add another HD5850 down the road

You can up grade your rez on your monitor when ready

If you will OC pick up a HSF for your CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

O_O 5850 FOR A 1440 x 900 RESOLUTION?!? Isn't that overkill??

Sure it is but he will have the GPU to upgrade his rez when he can  

And if you read before you run your mouth, you would of seen i said that in the post

Pick up a HD5850 for 259 , Then your set to add another HD5850 down the road

You can up grade your rez on your monitor when ready

If you will OC pick up a HSF for your CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835103064  

*rubs eyes* yea sorries, I didn't read that. I need more sleep. X_X

@OP: Upgrade LCD to a 1680*1050 or better first. Then do CrossFire/SLI down the road.

Also, don't get the Vandetta. I used it and it's just average. Better get a S1283,CCF.

i actually already had one of the two video cards, so that's why i went with those. I think i will get a new monitor though. and look into this other stuff. thank you

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