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Hi guys, thank you very much for the feedback, in particular Sleepforest for providing an itemized list. I'll look into the 7970 and see if I'm comfortable purchasing it - at a glance I like the idea of an extra gig of video memory and the price is right. I will most likely be the happy owner of...

Awesome thread Mfenn, thank you. 2 quick questions for you (or anyone else). 1. I'm sort of partial to Nvidia video cards - any comparable cards on the market or is the price/performance of the 7970 recommended here just too good to pass up? 2. It seems the memory listed here is discontinued...

Hi Riversend, thanks for the response. I do have a monitor and keyboard/mouse ready. No old parts will be going into this new system. I have an OEM copy of windows 7 64bit (home premium) that I will be using on the system most likely - I may try windows 8 but for now I think I'll use what I have...

Hi guys, as thread title says I'm looking for advice on building a gaming system for $1,200 to $1,500 Canadian (not including tax/shipping/labour). The system will be used for games such as Simcity 2013, future MMO's, with maybe the odd FPS game (i.e. Farcry 3) and I will be running at...