HEY EVERYONE!
First of all hello. New here!
I’ll cut straight to the chase. I am building a new rig. 
Very excited actually. I built 2 before but nothing special or amazing. This time im going for somewhat powerful machine. I want it to be able to handle games like Crysis. At 1280X1024 resolution (high setting pref)
I am getting my self an Intel i7 920 CPU. I’m pretty much building everything around that. The reason for it is the overclocking. I have done A LOT of research and it does not seem all that hard ( a few tweaks in BIOS and you are good to go). I know it can go to 4+ GHz but I will be happy around 3.4-3.9
Also looking at Asus P6T6 Revolution for motherboard or an Asus Rampage II extreme….I STILL can’t decide which one.
So now I kinda get stuck. Since I will be getting an SLI motherboard (prob P6T6), I am going to get an SLI video card. For now I will get just 1 but SLI ready pretty much, so maybe in half a year or so I will get another one. (The P6T6 has 3 true SLI slots I believe)…..but….which one? nVidia? ATI? What would your recommend? I am not looking to spend $1000 on just a video card…but willing to probably go up to maybe $600-800 decent one.
hard drives and RAM are kinda taken care of, I won’t have too much trouble deciding on what to get. Prob around 6 gigs to start. (gonna run a 64-bit OP….windows XP pro probably, not a big fan of vista)
Also need advice on the cooling system. I would much rather have liquid cooling…much better obviously and quiet (and look cool :P ).
OH and planning or Corsair for power supply…..and perhaps Kingston for memory.
What do you guys think? I’m open to suggestions, criticism and etc

Hi Amoun, welcome to HTG. If you are wanting a future proof gaming rig then it would be advisable to get at least Vista x64 as suggested by lukeocom because it uses the DirectX 10 technology , even better would be Windows 7 that incorporates DirectX 11. The new DirectX 11 graphic cards are to be released soon such as the ATI 5870, with games following soon. Matt