I Also once used Intel and switched to AMD. I believe I will be going back to intel chips although I buy my pc parts for the price and performance range I am looking for. I am however a huge fan of the nvidia driver support and ease of use with nvidia cards. I used ati and it was more hassle then it was worth for me anyway. Inside news ATi is developing a really nice new card (my friend is designing the GPU he works for AMD/ATI designing there chips). He has worked on the X-Box 360 and helped in designing the GPU for that. I thought i would just give my 2 cents on this. I am not knocking or promoting either way. I build a bunch of customs and they are tailored top individual needs of the user. Anyway the system looks pretty damn nice to me.
I built this SLI system I run on a budget of about $1200 for the tower. Not bad and get great performance. I wasn't willing to shell out the cash for the 8800 series cards so I went with dual 7900 gs cards. Budget with great results. I play Vanguard in it's current state on the highest Quality performance settings and get about 30 FPS and that is withoput the game even taking advantage of SLI I can't wait for the SLI optimization they are going to add to the game.
Anyway that is all I have to say besides you designed a nice rig and I think it will work well for what you want to do with it. If you need help wiht it in anyway just holler.
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