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"Almost as a validation of the notable price/performance potential of AMD’s new Radeon models, Nvidia very quickly slashed its own prices in a very aggressive fashion. At $200, the GeForce GTX 460 is more powerful than the Radeon HD 6850 and offers some stiff competition. We’re already seeing...

I would go with a GTX 460 for those graphically intensive games. It certainly won't be overkill; you probably won't get very good frame rates at maximum settings at your resolution. Here are some benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=180

Your RAM is DDR3, right? The Phenom II X4s are a better value. The i5-750 is a more powerful processor, but you wouldn't see much of an improvement for gaming. It would also be hard to get an i5-750 on that budget. If your ram is DDR3, you would need an AM3 motherboard for the Phenom II X4...

I would use Arctic Silver's recommendation for your processor. It seems to work best in my experience if you follow their instructions. It's more important to have really good thermal contact near the cores than to have ok contact across the heatsink. http://arcticsilver.com/methods.html

That power supply would be huge overkill for your system now. 550W: any single graphics card 550W-600W: GTS 450s, GTS 250s (single 6-pin PCI-E port graphics cards) in SLI 650-750W: GTX 460s, GTX 260s (dual 6-pin PCI-E port graphics cards) in SLI 750-850W: GTX 470s in SLI 850-1000W: GTX 480s in SLI