E8200 clocked to 3.6 (yes, I rule)
9800 GTX+ clocked to nearly 830 core
2GB low latency (forgot the times) RAM
2TB RAID Storage
Asus p5q pro running P45 chipset, chose it over a nvidia chipset.. don't want SLi yet and intel chipsets are so much better for what I need.
All in all cost me about £400.
But that's what you get when you know where to look, and have a distributor
Best advice I can give to you all though is to buy tomorrow's technology tomorrow and today's today. You might think you're the king of the LAN party buying all the latest and greatest, but when you look again in 3 months and see the prices of your components halved, the only one laughing is the manufactures that live off 'must have' consumers buying their stock at stupid prices.
An example is the difference between my £400 rig and demonx's £2510.79 rig.
There's no current game or task I couldn't match that spec in, and when the time comes that there is a game so demanding that to play it I will need to upgrade to SLi, or go quad core... which is a long time coming, as GPUs will be bottlenecking performance before CPUs get a look-in for some time. I'll be able to buy components that will surpass those for a quarter of the price.
I'm not dissing you, I did exactly the same the first time I built my own pc, I even spent roughly the same amount.. I'm just saying that you could have probably saved yourself 2 grand and had a pc that lasted the same amount of relative time.
On a side note if any of you are interested in upgrading your pcs then feel free to ask me about components/prices or advice and I'd be happy to help and give you a quote if required.