Originally Posted by
emanresu
As the others said you don't need that much VRAM for gaming on a single 1920x1080 monitor, or an i7 for gaming.
You don't need 16 GB of RAM for gaming either, and the extra set of DIMMs will hurt your ability to overclock. Since you're spending so much you should definitely look at getting an SSD at large enough for for the OS and programs (60 GB is the minimum I'd say, my fresh install of Windows 7 with around 40 small programs is 22 GB, after SP2 and other updates it will balloon in size) and if you want faster load times in games then you'll want a larger one of course. I'm not sure about that soundcard, it'll be fine for gaming I guess, but I expect there's much better for listening to audio/movies. You don't need a network card unless you want the extra port, your motherboard certainly has 1 Gbit Ethernet built in, which is likely better than that card. I also hate the HAF cases, so damn ugly.
When that does happen it's likely the graphics card will simply not be powerful enough to run the game at those settings anyway. You cannot future-proof performance reliant computer hardware, they change too fast and are improved too quickly. Every six months or so new parts will be released that are better than what you buy now, no matter how much you spend.