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Yeah thats what I'm looking for, a computer that'll run games made for the next several years on a high setting without needing to be upgraded.
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I'm sorry... It's just...
If you want to be able to play games on high for the next few years, get a good motherboard... That's the first pri. Then you don't need to go completely over the top with everything else as long as it runs current games on high, and can do so for a little longer.
Then be prepared to upgrade.
I say this because several friends of mine have tried doing what you are doing now. Getting a monster of a computer, expecting to be able to play anything, and then realizing that "Oh crap, technology really does move forwards a LOT."
As for the current specs you have up, I think I'd ask them to put in an extra hardrive, but not any bigger than max 500 GB (I'd recommend somewhere in the 250 GB area.) and with at least 7200 rpm, preferably higher. The reason being that big harddrives use a little more time, so when running heavy applications you'll want to run them off the small drive, and then use the big drive for storage of movies, music, pictures and so forth.
When building a computer it's often useful to remember Moore's law. Basically a guy that was working for Intel I think it was, made this law in the seventies, that every two years, the amount of transistors that can be placed on a chip for a the consumer market will at least double. The growth in transistor numbers, and as a result processing speed has never broken this law since. In fact we often see a faster growth than this.
What all this means is that yes, you should get a good motherboard. Get a good processor, and a decent graphics card. But make sure that you save a few of those sterling to upgrade your comp in the next few years. It's cheaper and it will get you better performance.
Phew...