New Computer

[Slaughter]

Alright, so I'm working full time making good money this summer and I'm saving up to build a new PC..

Heres a couple questions:

1) Hyper Threading or Dual Core/FX?.. (Intel or AMD)... Seems the real question here is $$

2) Going Nvidia.. is SLI worth it or do I just get one of the new 512mb cards?

[Slaughter]

1) AMD selection in the price range I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103539
Intel selection in the price range I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116197

to me the Clear winner seems to be the Intel with 2mb of L2 cache... though I'm skeptical to see how the two cpu's would run in like systems..

If I do go the AMD it'll have 2GB of RAM, whereas the Intel on DDR2 would only have 1GB....

Hmm.