Currently building a new rig:

ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Phenom x4 9950 (BE)
6 GB RAM OCZ PC6200 800Mhz (2x1GB sticks & 2x2GB sticks)
1TB HDD Samsung 7200rpm SATA
650W eXtreme Power Supply
O.S: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

Now all I need now is a graphics card. Ive been searching the web reading reviews about which card i should buy but I'm a little confused. So i decided to post my question on here: Which graphics card would the people of X-S recommend? My budget is £150

I would like to play games (Crysis etc.) at high gfx settings with a decent FPS. Since i'm using a HP 19" widescreen i'd be using a 1440x900 resolution.

Furthermore, since I have an ATI crossfire enabled mobo opposed to a nvidia SLI, would I benefit from getting an ATI card, so tht in the future if i wanna upgrade, i can double up on the card I originally have?

Cheeeers

ATI 4850?

http://www.ebuyer.com/cat/Graphics-Cards-A...-HD-4800-Series

The 4850 looks pretty impressive especially if add a second at a later date using crossfire

Is there any Nvidia cards that can rival the 4850 in terms of price?

havent a clue mate
stick to ati though since you have a x-fire enabled board

couple of charts to compare specs-

http://www.techarp.com/article/Desktop_GPU...n/ati_4_big.png
http://www.techarp.com/article/Desktop_GPU...vidia_4_big.png

Yeah, the 4850 and 4870 are the best out there right now.

Here is the rig I'm about to build.

yayupp just so you know, that case is huuuugeeee
my roommate had that case, and it was humongous.