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VACKillers: Yah the budget is the most important part, being around $1500 Canadian :P

Hamz: Yah, my problem with the tower is where it goes in my room, which is in a custom built desk made for mid towers haha. I might be able to swing a full tower if it's just tall and not super deep. I will definitely be attempting to make this as cool as possible, especially if I go dual 8800's haha. Thanks for all the tips, this is great stuff!

Xruntime: I was thinking about that, but the FPS for that card is horrendous, especially for the price. It barely keeps up with a 9800GX2 in most games which surprised me! And yes, I agree that 2 4870's is a bad idea haha.

Sparky: Thanks! Yah I don't need a quad as far as I figure. The dual cores are smoking the quads in most cases for gaming -- especially when price comes into play!

I'm about to dump a bunch of cash into a new rig, but the games I am building it for won't be out for a while longer such as starcraft 2 and guild wars 2. I need to buy this soon though because my friend wants to buy my current rig.

I'm just wondering how long you guys and gals who are more than likely way more PC saavy than I, this rig will remain a good gaming machine before I'll have to upgrade like crazy. I'm not hellbent on ultra high settings and stuff, but if I could get like 3 years out of the thing I'd be a happy camper...albeit probably a wishful hoping one haha.

Here's the list of parts:

Two (for SLI) EVGA 8800GT Superclocked Edition (single slot solution so my tower isn't full as hell haha)
EVGA Nforce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard (Preferabbly the A1 version as it's the updated and has all the extras)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz Processor
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0 GB/s Hard Drive
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V Power Supply
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) RAM
Thermaltake Tsunami ATX Mid Tower Computer Case (Or whatever case you think would fit all this and have better or equal cooling)
Whatever the best DVD drive you have, and a floppy drive
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit Edition

Thanks for the help!

If you have any suggestions for different parts and whatnot, just let me know -- it'd be much appreciated!