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What temperature is considered too hot? Speedfan is showing me that my CPU is usually between 25 - 31 C. When should I start to get worried?

Ok, maybe Crysis was a bad example :P

Will it take a much more expensive video card to run lets say Crysis at 70 FPS on a 27" as it would to run Crysis at 70 FPS on a 19"? Please excuse my ignorance, it's been a long time since I've followed computer tech. Back when I last a built a decent computer we were still using AGP, IDE...

I plan on purchasing a new monitor in the next 2-3 months.

I hate you guys for being right.

good points. hmmmm...decisions...decisions...

I've read that i7 doesnt really provide much of a benefit over core 2 duo or quad for gaming unless you have multiple GPUs since most games are single threaded. Is this true? I can't go over $1000 so i7 might be out of the question just because of price.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? Etc PC will be mostly for PC games. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 but intend on playing other graphic intensive FPS and some RTS's like Dawn of War II. There will be some Photoshop as well as streaming HD video to a PS3...