^holy buckets, strange that they upped the price so high for it.
Do you really need the blu-ray drive hitmanj, thats ups the cost of the build quite a bit. ALso to watch blu ray movies at full capacity you will need an hdcp monitor.
^meh, he's getting a 4870 which is hdcp, check out the thread i made about it in New technology (it's supposed to be great at playing blu ray movies)
The benchmarks for the card are quite impressive if you read long enough into it. It isn't far behing the 280 for half the price, so two of them is going to mop up the 280 for still a cheaper price .
The thread is under : New Technology Services & Products
I would just get a dvd wirter as they can burn and play everything (other then blu ray obviously) there really is no good or bad ones, my first choice would be lg or samsung though.
^i would get a g.skill kit (800mhz 4-4-4-12 timings) or you could get some crucial ballistix Tracers, although i have heard some rumors about them switching to the one sided chips like the normal crucial ballistix did, but it has not been confirmed.