The problem in graphics is NV and AMD hold all the patents you'd have to come up with something massive to unseat them.

And MS is odd, parts of it do amazing work but their management sucks ass. If I were CEO there I'd dump stack ranking and drop the 2 year project limit (any non-windows or research only project has 2 years to produce something marketable dumb move on MS's part)

Patents. There was a time when intellectual property laws were a good thing. I think we can safely say that was a long time ago now. Now there are no end of businesses set up to profit from IP they will never actually use in any way other than as a weapon against others and many other companies treating it like a sideline income.

As for Microsoft, yeah, I think that the only real conclusion you can reach with them is that they're too big. Definitely some very talented people there, but the same can be said of a lot of failed companies too. If MS was split up into different companies then there's little doubt that many would fail to stand on their own two feet.

Sorry, bit hard to give a budget, I am buying thru work, so I get some discounts, get some more by having some of it directly subtracted from sallery.
(Really hard to not go overboard when you do not see taxes and fees). Was thinking in the NOK 10.000 (1,600$) now if its before or after discounts, not sure.

Alright, well...
1. I still think the CPU is very much an overkill. You could save quite a bit of money with going with a Z77 chipset motherboard and an Intel i5-3570K (plus a cooler) and you'd lose pretty much no gaming performance. (benchmark comparison: )
2. VGA: how about this one? or the stronger and slightly more expensive
3. Can't help you about the case, I can only say: be sure to check if the VGA fits.
4. PSU seems to be too strong too. A quality 600-650W should run this, maybe even lower.

Definitely overkill. Also, for gaming the i7 series doesn't offer much of an advantage over comparable i5 processors. Balazs nailed the better alternative with his suggestion of a i5-3570K. Another massive overkill- basically throwing money away. Plus if you take our suggestions and go with a 3570 for your processor you'll be looking at socket 1155. A couple of possibilities I'd suggest are this and this. Sounds cards are a tough call these days- for many people's setups the motherboard's onboard sound is good enough and they won't notice any difference between that and a good sound card. For other people with the right environment (good speakers, quiet environments, etc) you can see a pretty significant difference in sound quality. It can also be tough to choose a particular brand and card since there aren't really any good benchmarks to look at for sound cards, plus a lot of the manufacturers simply don't have their shit together when it comes to drivers (Creative is particularly notorious for this, although my own Creative X-Fi has treated me very well for 5 years over a couple of different systems). My advice here would be to pass on the sound card initially, see how the onboard sound sounds to you, then based on that decide whether a dedicated sound card would be worth it for you. Pretty much a commodity component so just double check to make sure that the motherboard you choose official supports the RAM you go with. If you ensure this and that you're going with a reputable brand (Crucial is such a brand) then there's not much else to say. Should work fine. What you're looking for is called the "Desktop" form factor (as opposed to a Mid-Tower or Full-Tower form factor), and there aren't many companies that make them these days. You can still find them, such as this, but your options are pretty limited. There are also some issues with then when you're trying to cram a performance PC into one, as they tend to be on the smaller side, so you'll be dealing with components being a tight fit (especially a large GPU) as well as airflow and cooling issues. I'd personally recommend forgoing a desktop case and going with a more traditional full-tower, but if you have your heart set on one now you know what you need to look for. Again, overkill. For a single GPU machine anything over 700-800 W is completely unnecessary (and that extra power is great for frying components if something goes wrong with the PSU). Tone it down to something in the 600-800 W range. I'm not familiar with Chieftec as a brand- they seem to have good reviews, but I'm completely unfamiliar with them so can't say much from personal experience. So, tone down the wattage, and I'd also recommend ensuring that whatever PSU you settle on is modular so you don't have extra cables filling up your case (this will be of particular concern if you go with the desktop case form factor). I'm not a particular fan for 10,000 RPM drives, especially large ones. The massive increase in price vs the small gains in performance just aren't worth it in my opinion. If you really think that HDD read speeds are going to be causing you performance issues then you could consider a SSD coupling with a standard HDD for storage, but I'm also of the opinion that SSDs aren't worth the price either. Your call, but the two options I'd recommend are either just go with one or two 1TB 7200 RPM drives (I'd recommend this option more heavily), or a 1TB HDD for storage along with a 200-300 GB SSD for your system drive.

Check out these parts lists: http://www.hardware-revolution.com/computer-systems/gaming-pc/

Thanks, Been looking at it a bit, and it looks like its going to be of good help.

And for the I5 VS I7, From what I have seen on the supplier page, there is actually not that big a difference in price, about 32$, So I think ill stay on the I7.