Trying to stay wireless, I don't want to run cable from the room the modem/router is in to the room the computer is in, I try to keep the modem/router on the far side so that neighbors can share in my bandwidth.
^^ not really accurate since there's a few torrents and 3 xboxs on live right now.
I had 5870's selected, and they were sold out between building my rig and ordering (like 4 minutes), and no, I didn't really have a budget, and these pieces were just ordered today.