New Gaming Rig, $1700 Budget

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Alright guys, I've heard great things about this forum and I'm making the jump to PC gaming so I thought, why not get some solid advice. Here we go:

Approximate Purchase Date: I will order the parts by Monday October 10, 2011 at the latest

Budget Range: $1700 preferably but I can go up to $1800

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (I want to play all my games on max settings, full HD including BF3, Rage, Metro 2033, Crysis, etc). Photoshop, lite amateur video editing

Parts Not Required: I do not need the OS

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, amazon, any other reliable site you can recommend.

Country of Origin: USA

Parts Preferences: Please, Nvidia and Intel only. I don't hate on AMD, but I just prefer the other two.

Overclocking: Not in the foreseeable future.

SLI or Crossfire: We'll see what you guys think.

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: I need a full HD monitor, nothing too expensive, whatever nice affordable keyboard you can get, but definitely a great mouse.


So that's pretty much what I would like and hopefully with $1700-$1800 I can get it. Do you guys think that's a good budget? Alright, so I don't want to seem to seem like a lazy bum which is why I'm gonna go research and then give you guys a rough list of what I'd like, but in the mean time if any of you could offer some potential builds, I'd appreciate it. I'd love to see what you guys would build with 1800 bucks. Please and thank you very much for you're time.
 
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Ok, since you said you would order on oct. 10 at the latest, I would highly recommend waiting until then. AMD is *supposed* to release bulldozer then, and yes, I understand you don't like them, but if it is released, you can see if it's performance is good to be worth purchasing. However, there is also a fair chance that it would be delayed again, in which case you could just order whatever build you decide on.
On to the build.

Intel Core i5-2500 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115073

ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard...