New m17x: which config to choose?

Hi all,
I've made up my mind and want to buy a mx17.
I would like to have a suggestion from you.

I would like to buy the 1490x900 screen option. Reason for that is that I want to play at that resolution and I think playing at native is always better.
Any reason why this choice could be wrong?

Furthermore, will the 280 sli give me a lot more power than my 8800 sli I have at the moment? Consider I will choose the qx9300 and the games I will play are ETW, oblivion, Fallout 3, gtaIV, gothic 4, mafia 2, assassin creed 2, basically I love RPG's.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

These types of questions are being answered here

 

screen is totally a personal choice so dont go by what everyone else wants. or you may get the wuxga and hate it. me personally i would not order anything but wuxga but to some they hate them..

the 280 will for sure be better than the 8800. not leaps and bound better imo but for sure will be a better setup. what i mean is you will not be going from say integrated x4500 to 8800sli.. lol... if you get my point

as for cpu again i dont think for the normal user right now at this time the qx9300 is a great choice. its overkill for most things you will do. but in the long run it will for sure last longer and run future apps better so as long as they end up supporting the quad cores it has.. for now if you want to save monry get the cheaper dual core it will be fine. but if you are going to spend as much as the x9100 is then for sure get the base system and grab yourself a quad off ebay and do the upgrade yourself

 

If you have the money, go with the 280Ms. But the improvement is not massive over 260Ms, only around 10-15%. Depends if you want that. I'd recommend a quad core too. 4GB ram is fine-unless you want to do some sort of extreme multitasking. the 4GB ram sticks (to make 6GB or 8GB) are still far too expensive to be worth it in most people's cases.

Hard drive space is just personal need. I would highly recommend SSDs if the storage is enough and if you can afford them.

 

Thanks guys!