[Solved] Where Do I Go From Here?

that setup is pretty good. CPU wise you may consider upgrading, but it won't be a big upgrade even if you got the top chip. For better gaming, the cpu is just fine, if your board is xfire-able, get a second 6850 (good choice on the asus, that card is awesome). That would probably require a slightly bigger psu though.

SSD! SSD! SSD!
OS boot drive
will make a noticeable performance difference
if you OS isnt too big than just use something like Paragon Image Backup
to clone your os to ssd
for less than the price of another hd 6850 you would get better performance overall
CF GPUs are a hassle and only see difference in some games and apps

A ssd would be performance increase with anything you do

The HD is the slowest part of your system especially a mechanical
drive

probably a 128gb would be just right level of performance versus price
go with Intel or OCZ drives

i have a 750watt psu and am doing fine with powering to of the same 6850s. I think I could have had a 650 according to the kill-a-watt.

ssd will not make games get faster fps. It will decrease load times. It will make the system faster overall, its the slowest part in everyones' pc. As far as audio, it would be expensive to use ssd for working with large files.

Would an SSD be just for my OS? Just asking because I have over 300 Gigs of just game files from Steam.

another nice upgrade though not performace wise directly
would be a bigger higher resolution monitor
Asus, Samsung, Viewsonic and others make some nice ones as you
probably know and
going from 20.5 (?)1600x900 to something like 1920x1200 24 or better
would be a nice upgrade for total system
also by having higher res you would take some workload off of CPU
and use more of the HD6850 power

also could use your original as secondary display
which I really like especially for monitoring programs,email programs etc
which are nice to have up all the time but not take up primary monitor "real estate"

as king says add a hd monitor i did and it makes a world of difference work load wise. you can just get more done with a bigger desktop, especially when doing multimedia.
as your into tunes i would plump for a sound card too. make sure you go for 1 that offloads from the cpu as not all do (especially cheaper 1s).

as fo ssd to boot your o.s it doesn't make that much of a difference especialy if you only get a small 1 in real terms you want 1 with about 300gig for a boot so you can install your apps on it too not just the o.s. or you will have a system that boots fast but is actually no faster when it comes to actual usage.

First, steam is awesome. Everything is kept internal to the steam folder. This means you can drag that steam folder around your system all you want, just update the correct location in the short cut and it will load. And because the game files are kept in the steam/apps folder, no problems.

SSD might be a good idea, more so if your music program uses the disk a lot. I would think it would load things into ram so I'm not sure how much an SSD would help. Check your software. The L3 cache found on a Phenom 2 might make it a better option.

btw you can set programs to install on other drives by default through windows.
64GB should be enough for OS, you can spli the drive you have in two partitions one for programs and other for data
getting phenom with L3 will make a difference specially as you do media editing (4 or 6 cores though)
a descent sound card for your work
no need for a larger screen yours is fine but a nice surround or speakers would be great

Very welcome
actually if you have Newegg available suscribe to their email mailings
I have seen some nice weekend deals on SSDs in there
really for the price of a video card you can
get a decent ssd

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Good luck with your upgrades

And of course if later on after the ssd and monitor
a second video card in CF would be cool