Is this a good middle of the road system?

I do gaming [newest] Crysis, BF3, etc. mainly.

However, I also do video and photo work. My

piece of crap Dell XPS i7 Sli PC is about dead,

so I want to get something I can upgrade in the

future without all the proprietary build limitation(s).

(I might add I'm not necessarily a extreme gamer though)

Thanks for any ideas - advise you might have.

 

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My monitor is a 24" 1920x1200 [native] rez.

I doubt I will go any larger than 26" and will likely

stay with the 24" ; other than maybe a 3D display.

 

Basically, would this be above or below middle road then [as listed]?

 

My previous processor is a i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (not over clocked)

in a Dell XPS with 1gb nvidia SLI 9800 GT cards bought 3 years ago.

Their system(s) are so proprietary & there is no upgrade ability.

Typically, I buy a PC with (much) more power than needed at that time.

 

I use my pc for gaming, video & photo editing generally.

I want to have the ability to upgrade to any new mobo, chipsets

tri/sli and such, but I don't have to have the full set of cutting edge

just hardware now. I would certainly like to have a nice upgrade from

from my old junky XPS system.

 

Any advice on the build components [or other] is appreciated.

 

Thank you Frank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Wondered what happened to you.

I'm a pretty good go_fer for my wife too.

The possible Tri-SLI config was the main

reason for the upgrade. (just in case)

 

            Catch you later, Tommy

 

(now, I have to hurry up & wait)