Just purchaed a new 2.66ghz mac pro, have a few questions

Hey guys, i've been finally reading the forums a bit trying to wet my appetite for the new mac pro arriving today via fedex.
I bought the 2.66 quad with the 7300 video card, 1gb ram and 250gb hd. I bought this from apple refurb for $2100. I already purchased an addition 500gb perpendicular hd. I can get ram cheap, so im not to worried about that. Here are my questions:
1) I have a westinghouse 37" lcd 1080p monitor (1900x1080 res) Will the 7300 be enought to drive this monitor?
2) i had a standard logitech surround sound witht he 3 wire setup, i know the mac pro has toslink, so i bought logitech z5500 setup that has the dolby digital and toslink built in. Will this work witht he mac pro without any problems and is it a good set of speakers?
3)My needs for the mac are pretty simple, music, photos, video conversion and editing, internet, and light gaming. Do you think the 2.66 will be enough, or should i go with the 8 core? I think the 8 is overkill, but i am new to macs so thats why im here!!
Thanks,
Frank

Hi Ultravox. I just got the same rig as a refurb, tax free no less due to this being my state's tax holiday. Good call on the memory as I just ordered my extra from Crucial a few days ago and it's already here - and WAY cheaper than Apple's.
My 2 cents, the nVidia card gets a pretty bum wrap. While it's true the ATI would be better for gaming, I don't think it will make any difference for straight video editing that is, without a lot of realtime motion effects. To the extent you have such you can just render to view, which will be really fast with these CPU's. I've looked at all the benchmarks and what it means for games is to get playable frame rates on some of the 3D titles you will have to lower the resolution. Not ideal, but I think acceptable for a light duty gamer. I have to do this now on my G4, which has an even less capable video card than the 7300. I considered buying a new 2.0 GHz machine and getting the ATI as a custom option (if new) or add-on kit (if a refurb), but decided I could live with the 7300 for a year or so and upgrade later. To get the 2.66 with the ATI would have busted my budget. For long-term use, the processor upgrade is worth more, since graphics cards change constantly and can be upgraded easily. It may also be that Apple comes out with some more graphic card options going forward, as I'm not that thrilled with some of the complaints I read on how noisy the ATI can be. It would be nice to have an option in between the nVidia 7300 and the ATI. Here is a fairly positive review of the 7300, although, admittedly not being used for any gaming.
http://www.architosh.com/features/2006/reviews/macpro/macpro_1.html
Steve

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