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Right now, getting a top video card is not necessarily a good idea.
The 9800GTX is a nice card, but only marginally better than the 8800GTX (and in some cases, worse. Crysis runs better on an 8800GTX than a 9800GTX. Go figure). However, rumour has it that nVidia has 9900 series cards coming out around June/July which will be a real upgrade from the 8 series.
SLi is probably not worth the hassle. It still doesn't give a decent performance boost in all games, my major gripe with it is that you cannot run dual monitors and SLi (though you can turn off sli when you're not using it) but I enjoy having a game open on one screen and being able to read something else on the other, get email notifications, see who's coming on messenger, etc, I don't know whether anyone else is like this.
Oh and it's not worth going ATI/AMD at the moment.
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