Config review

Hello everyone!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving !!!! hope everyone is having a great time with their family and friends. As you all know, Digital storm has a black Friday sale going on with a 15% discount. I've been wanting to get a gaming pc for a while and with this deal its simply too hard to resist. This will be my first gaming pc so i'm SUPER excited lol. After doing some research( and reading the buyers guide which was VERY helpful) i came up with this set up. Now the problem is that i cant decided whether to buy the gtx 470 or wait for the new nvidia/ati card which are supposedly around the corner. Help guys!!!!


Budget:
1600-1800(max)

Expectations:
Be able to play Crysis at max settings and other recent games such as Fallout new vegas. I will be using a single 24 in monitor set-up with 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Usage:
80% gaming 20% writing papers and doing some graphic designs

Special Needs:
I will be using this machine for gaming for the most part. Have a laptop to do other stuff.



Specifications:

Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master HAF 932 (Black Edition: Internal Black Paint Job)
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI 3 Edition (USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gb/s) (Model: 131-GT-E767)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 750W Digital Storm Certified (Dual SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition Recommended)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (500GB Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB (Includes PhysX Technology) (EVGA Brand)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: Noctua NH-U12P SE Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler
H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: - No Thanks
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: FREE: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Cooling Upgrade Recommended)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Install/Test Game: - No Thanks
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty

looks pretty good to me, id push for the 480 if at all possible, 1920x is not a range the 470 is overwhelmingly good with

The gtx 580 would be worth it but just a few days ago they marked it up by $200 because the demand is way over the supply. So now it should pretty much be off the table for most people since its $200 more for a extra core or two and quieter.

I agree with ender saying that u should try to go for the 480.
with the new cards that come out q1 2011 do you mean the ati cards? Personally i don't think they are going to have any single gpu cards that will be much better than the 480. Its the same manufacturing process just a few added tweaks for both companies. And the problem with waiting till then is intel will have the new socket out around there and so you will want to wait for that and after that there will always be more things to come.
If i were you and had the money i would just go for it and not look back unless i knew something was within a week away.