Can you improve this overall system without raising the cost?

your links are bronken!XD

Bump....links fixed....give me some advice peeps....thanks

Ok even with your links broken I found the components you selected You would just change the motheboard

for the ASUS M4A79XTD+ amd x4 955

and get the memory out of the combo.

I don't know about the ASUS M4A785TD-V but the difference of prices between this one and the M4A79XTD is not big, and personally I have one of those and I'm very satisfied with it, I think 790x is better then 785g

Otherwise this build is good!

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G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH - Retail
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• Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2 Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
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• SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity - Retail
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-$20.00 Combo
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$374.98
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-$15.00 Combo
$339.98
$319.98
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Subtotal: $945.92

crap didnt add HDD samsung F3 500 54.99 I tryed  

Thanks....does anyone else have any suggestions or input?

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That's a great build^^^ except the video card, if you want to go with direct x 10 go for a 4890, and if you want to go for directx 11 5770, or 5850, I would recommend the 5850 if your budget allows, if not the 4890, then the 5770.

Great info guys....keep it coming....I am taking notes

I'm personally not a big fan of crossfire/SLI, or dual gpus, I rather have a a single gpu slighter slower then dual because there games that don't take advantage of the second one, for example grand theft auto IV a 285gtx will performe better than a 295 gtx just because 285gtx is a single gpu and the 295gtx = 2x 275)

look at the graphs of this review, how basically you won't see any difference with dual gpu, it basically the same performance as the single gpu.

The 4850x2 has more power than the 4890 and about the same as a 5850. all cards will have some games where the drivers and code don't work great together, so if a specific game is very important to you be sure to check benchmarks on that specific game, but across the board a 4850x2 is going to win 90% of the time against those single gpu solutions.
Here is a chart that shows pretty much all the video cards and how they compare. This shows two 4850 512mb cards in crossfire beats all the solutions you mention in the post below. In fact, this chart is a little unfair..the 4850x2 card i linked has 2gb of memory which really makes it perform better than these numbers show at higher resolutions and when AA and AF are cranked up
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-card...
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-card...[3075]=on&prod[3028]=on&prod[3068]=on&prod[3103]=on

the 5850 can be compared with the 4890 performance!!!! but it have directx 11
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/264586-33-4850x2-4890
there is a thread about it, and guess what, they chose the 4890!!

unfortunately tom's graphics charts don't have the 5850 for comparison, but as you can see if you check out the second link the 4850x2 has much better (about 30%) performance than the 4890 in almost every benchmark. The only one where it is lower is the one with 8xAA and 16xAF....the reason it choked in that benchmark is because they were using 512mb cards, the one I recommended is a 2Gb version, so more than likely it would win even there. Its closest to the gtx285, it wins some and loses some, depending on if the game prefers nvidia drivers or ati drivers.

The build by niklas_13 gets my vote, that is a pretty darn good build at a decent price. You may be able to tweak a point or 2 here and there, but it would pretty much be by personal preference.