Worthwhile upgrade for 1600x1200?

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Just ordered a new Dell monitor 2001fp, would the following be a worthwhile upgrade for it, or would it be overkill?

MB-130-AS Asus P5WD2-E Premium Intel 975X (LGA775) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-130-AS)
£149.95 £149.95
GX-052-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 ***CrossFire Edition*** 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-052-PC)
£299.95 £299.95
CP-112-IN Intel Pentium 4 930 Dual Core "LGA775 Presler" 3.0GHz (800FSB) - Retail (CP-112-IN)
£204.95 £204.95
SC-032-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition - Retail (SC-032-CL)
£128.95 £128.95
Subtotal £783.80
VAT £137.17
Total £920.97

thoughts? Ive already got a X1800XT, i always waste a shed load of money throughout a year buying and selling stuff, so i thought if i just went 'balls' out it should run everything all year without me worrying about it.

Would the soundcard fit in okay if ive got 2 x1800's in there?
 
My preference is intel, i dont like the current amd crossfire board.

I initially was thinking of just getting the motherboard and crossfire card, as ive already got a 630 intel and 2gb of 667 ddr2 memory, but seeing as the new dual core chips on intel arent that expensive, i may as well max the thing out.

I dont think the cpu would be a major factor with 2 x1800's in any case. Finally it would be a bit of a rare setup, as ive not seen many people with a intel dual core crossfire setup, so a bit of uniqueness, id be interested to see how it performed compared to everyone else's X2 setups :)
 
I want silky smooth 60fps on everything really, its just not possible at 1600x1200 with some games. If i switched to a64 id have to ditch my ram, and i always have less problems on intel boards, they are pretty rock solid, ive had quite a few a64 boards, and ive never been totally happy with any of them.
 
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