New graphic card

[cali03boss]

$1,600 price tag, for the tower alone.

what a blatent waste of money. 1,600 dollar tower? Is it made of solid gold?

And this will be mostly a next-gen gaming/rendering system.

It will play the games at bae minimum to medium sure....but not max quality. Especially if you're gonna buy a 64 bit dual core processor but only use a 32 bit windows...whats the point? 2 gigs of ram won't run bioshock perfect, and for crysis unless you have a 780MB or higher video card you're gonna need SLI(multiple video cards connected via an nVidia translator.

I'm using 64 bit vista, and there are no problems. I have offboard everything and there wasn't a single issue except for reinstalling the system. The only issues come with server software and networking. But I'd like to know how you plan on using this as a "next gen gaming machine" when your processor can outperform the software (limiting the processor) and no multi-card connection ports.