I suppose it comes down to what you need your money for.
I have a perfectly suitable Gaming PC for less then 1/2 that cost. You don't need a solid state drive, you don't need a £130 PSU, you don't a £130 Case...etc
Saying that, I will no doubt have a gander at making you a PC for the silly amount of money you have requested
At the end of the day, it's down to how much money you have and how much of it you wish to apportion to a computer.
As someone said in a similar topic, I may be on £12,000 a year and want to spend half of one monthly budget on a computer, giving me a £500 rig. Someone else may be on £60,000 and wish to spend the same proportion of their income, giving a £5,000 computer. Overall, they still have £55,000 as opposed to my £11,500. If anything, I could be called irresponsible for spending such a high proportion, while for them it's no big deal.
There's absolutely nothing silly about an enthusiast or freelancer spending £2,000 on a computer. Most people spend more than that on a car they spend less time in and enjoy less. Just because you don't have that sort of cash spare, or if you do don't consider a computer to be important enough to you to spend it, is no reason to criticise someone else for it. Nor would I expect him to come into your <£1,000 build and laugh at you for only taking puny components.
It's an enthusiast forum and as such you can expect the big budgets at times, the whole point is to help others out with whatever their requirements are - I have fun speccing the big-money rigs I can't afford, like window shopping, and someone with a top-whack gaming rig may like to make a spec for me to see how much performance they can get on a budget, as a challenge.
Each to his own, live and let live etc.
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Edit:
I know this may sounds stupid, but the Geforce 295 is much better than the 4890 on benchmarks, for crysis and some other games.
ATI Radeon HD 4890 Turbo 1024MB GDDR5?
Would it be just one or can you run 2? SLI them? or is that only with the nvidia cards?
The 295 is pretty much equivalent to the 4890, each is slightly faster in some games but they match each other pretty closely. Enough that you probably wouldn't notice the 2/3 fps difference
You can use multiple cards together in much the same way as SLI - ATI call their version CrossFire (or CrossFireX now, I think, but whatever). You just need a different motherboard, since each board will only support SLI
or CrossFire, not both.
. As haj pointed out, 2 4890's would be a good option, cheaper than the 295 and will beat it in most games. I know you said you prefer nvidia, but ATi do offer some awesome cards. I've went back and forward from ATi and nvidia, have no preference, just buy the best card available.
