First Gaming Computer help

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twthunder

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This is my first time buying a gaming computer. I am familiar with computers, but this is the first time I am purchasing a high end computer for gaming. The computer that I am thinking about buying right now is the Alienware Aurora with a couple of upgrades. I will include the specs in this post. What do you think of them? Also which processor should I go with? Thank you very much, and any and all feedback would be very helpful.

Specs:

Alienware Aurora
OS Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English

Processors Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7 930 Quad Core Processor (3.36GHz, 8MB Cache) or Intel® Core™ i7 960 Quad Core Processor (3.2GHz, 8MB Cache)
Memory 12GB Triple Channel 1333MHz DDR3

Video Cards Dual 1GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 CrossfireX™ Enabled

Hard Drives 1TB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD

Floppy Drive Alienware® 19-in-1 Media Card Reader

Optical Drives Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium

Wireless 1525 PCIe WLAN card with 11n mini-Card & external antenna

Cooling Option Alienware™ High-Performance Liquid Cooling

Sorry about the long post, but thank you for taking the time to read it. Any and all advice is welcome.
 
would you be willing to build it yourself? if so, you could save a lot of money and still get a better computer.
 
what kind of budget are you dealing with and what kind of stuff are you doing with it? if gaming, which games and which settings (preferably)?
 
I have a budget of up to $3,000. Gaming wise I would like to be able to play RTS games such as Starcraft II, as well as FPS games on the highest settings I can achieve.
 
psu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139007&Tpk=corsair 1000
gpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150460&cm_re=5970-_-14-150-460-_-Product
ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231335
cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225&cm_re=i7-_-19-115-225-_-Product
motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128423
case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129087&Tpk=df-85

still need a hard drive. do you plan on overclocking your cpu? if so, for now i will recommend this heatsink: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018. however, if you don't want to overclock at all, you could save some money and go with the stock cooler. although with that budget, getting a different heatsink would probably be a good idea. with that, your total after mail-in rebates is $1870, without the shipping though. but that shouldn't be too much more.
 
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Also since you have such a large budget you might wanna look into a SSD drive with a 500GB/1TB storage HDD. Beware what cool you buy however as that g-skill ram COULD block the heatsink.
 
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