What components should I get?

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You cannot "future-proof" a PC. Everything goes out of date within a couple of months... EVERYTHING. My rule of thumb is NEVER NEVER EVER get the "lastest and greatest" when buying computer parts. At the very most, buy one-under. When the nvidia 500 series came out, the price of the 400 series cards dropped like a stone. My 460 has gotten me by just fine. I play Amnesia maxed out, Crysis maxed out, pretty much every game out there maxed out that isn't deliberately a game made so that you CAN'T max it out at launch (like Crysis was when it first came out).