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thoses are the only components I need (well perhaps a more powerful PSU - i currently have 400w)

for gaming obviously.

AMD/Intel? i dont care. whatever is gonna kick the most anus.

I was wondering if getting SLI was worth it, as it seems to be good for upgrading (buy one more of the same video card again, when I wanna upgrade)

price is flexible...obviously spending less is always good, but I can spend more if I can really justify the extra financial outlay.

I dont need links to shops, as im in Japan, so will be buying locally..just specs and products.

thanks in advance[/i]

Just a quick browse via newegg... I don't buy a lot of hardware so maybe someone could get even better deals, but nobody is biting?

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wi ... whorton001

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wi ... whorton002

Either one would play todays games pretty damn nicely, maybe not on OMG TENTACLE RAPE resolutions (1600+), it should play unreal 3 powered games and crysis too.

About ram, if you don't find that kind of brand, stuff from ocz, mushkin, or corsair would be good also

SLI is nice mostly for extreme resolutions, otherwise it's a marginal boost. It might be worth it a year or so down the road, as that type of card should cost a lot less.

But then again there is also directx10 features, the only card atm to support it is the 8000 nvidia series, you can run dx10 games perfectly fine on directx9 cards, with the exception of being able to enable all the extra eye candy.

But dx10 games are at least a half year away or more

Also for dx10 you need power hungry Vista (which eats 512mb memory just on bootup). If you won't be running SLI in the future you can go back down to around $800 by grabbing a mobo for under $100. I think maybe a better future upgrade instead of SLI would be grabbing another 2gb of ram, that would help out a lot for Vista and future games.