I will have to vote against the Fatal1ty board. It is SLI which is in my opinion not worth getting(I don't feel like a big explanation) and SLI boards cost quite a bit more. I would go with a good MSI or DFI board, and as for the Fatal1ty X-Fi....I was looking into it earlier, the only diff between it and an X-Fi extreme music is the front drive, 10mb of ram(does 10mb on a sound card really help at all?), and the price. If you followed my suggestions you could upgrade to an x2 4400+, and a x1800xt. The next jump to the 7800GTX 512 isn't worth the extra 150-170 american bucks in my opinion. This is just my opinion, by doing this you get more processing and video power but lost the 10mb of sound memory, the front drive thingy for the sound card, and the SLI feature.