Quote,"Um, excuse me? No, I'd beg to differ. Can you use a Playstation to have multiple 3D apps open, including modding programs, to create mods for games? Nope, sure can't. ;-)
OTOH, alot of great games start out for console, and later get lame ports to PC, and there doesn't seem to be any reversing that trend. GTA IV is a good recent example of that. Well, I'm an avid PC gamer and am probably a little biased. ;-)

Yes you are, I said, " I'm not a PC gamer," I bult my system to run my software and not play games. If I was to play games I would have gone with a bigger newer card.. Right now, a new case is first on the list. I want the CoolerMaser HAF. It was on sale for $150 right after Xmas but missed it due to family emergencies. Mind a couple of 120mm fans installed to the side panel keeps it all pretty cool. 22c /27c and 29c /36c at full load for a few hours. I think that pretty good for a hot system. My phenom 9950 is 140w.

I noticed the the new intels cpus are 130w. It looks to me that the new tech is getting hotter, not to mention the newer vid card are running hotter too and add SLI or Crossfire setups now. Cooling and psu are big factors when building a system. 

My opinions, I'm not a pro PC analist, it was my first built and works just fine for what I do