if i go with the 8800 gt cards instead of the 9800s which of these two cards would be best to get? MSI vs Palit? Both have the same specs, same price, but the Palit is 10MHz slower on the core clock, but has 1gb on the memory size vs the MSI's 512MB. normally, you'd figure go with the 1gig over the 512MB, but is this really worth it? and is Palit a reliable enough brand to pick over MSI on this 1 card? plus, if i invest in 2 cards, would i be able to run them both as independant of each other with my main on one card and my slaves on the second card and run a single or two monitors off both cards with the following specs? yes i changed some parts out again. hopefully for the last time, but main concern now is the card investment. another thing, should i opt for the 10k raptors or would it be good enough to get 2x 7200 rpm drives and install WoW to seperate folders on each? i'm not worried about having to update it multiple times after each patch. would it benifit me to get 3x 80gigs for slaves and 1x 500gig, both 7200s, for main/storage/OS. for later use if i decide to go hardware boxing, i'll use the 80gigs for those rigs. or would there be a difference in performance vs the 2x 7200 500gigs? here are the links for them:

Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136178

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136195

Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136011

MSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127329

PALiT NE/880TSXT302 GeForce 8800GT SONIC 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814261012

also thinking of getting this monitor. will surve as my gaming monitor for my 360 and ps3 cause of the hdmi ports. think it'd be a sound investment if i got 2 for my computer setup as well?

Acer P243WAid Black-Silver 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor with HDCP Support 400 cd/m2 3000:1 ACM - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009125