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Also got my tax refund already. Gonna be doing a major computer equipment upgrade soon. Thinking about the following, although I'm going to give my family first crack in the form of b-day presents.
Some sort of mid-line video card:
HIS H685FN1GD Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
High speed RAM and in fairly large chunks:
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10
High speed storage to replace my aging Raptor (10k drive):
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe MKNSSDCR60GB-DX 2.5" 60GB SATA III Synchronous MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
"Definitely pretty cool" processor:
Intel Core i5-2300 Sandy Bridge 2.8GHz (3.1GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Reasonably ok motherboard (may wanna go with a better mobo, but I couldn't deny the price):
ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Any advice/input is welcome. Although I've done some research already, via Tom's Hardware. The goal here is relatively modest... I wanna play
Diablo III and I figure that should be enough to make it run pretty well. After that, well, I'll just have a good gaming system for catching up on older games, if I want and have the time.