Quote - I'm adding to my official wishlist now.  How about 2  GeForce GTS 450 cards running in SLI with an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard and an AMD FX 8150 processor?  32GB RAM and a solid state drive with windows and maybe VUE and DS installed on it?

Sounds like a winner to me! Though out of curiosity, I wonder what the equivalent of the GTS450 is in the 600 series. Might run for the same price as those older gens and will obviously run faster (or at least more efficently) with the newest chipsets.

Add: One item of note if you're planning on doing lots of renders: Though those solid state HD's are fast, they haven't quite got a grasp on high capacity yet. The 10K rpm traditional hard drives are still very viable and a 2TB will hold lots and lots of render scene data files, content, etc. Not to mention they're quite cheap, compared to SSD's anyway.

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