>>So I decided with the economy the way it is that it is a great time for me to throw some money into a new machine. This machine will basically run Visual Studio, some light gaming such as WOW, and will run Vista Ultimate. If some hardware minded folks are interested I could email you my newegg.com cart... it's nice to have other people look at what I have to make sure I'm not making a mistake on a component. Thanks!
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>If you could wait until January you could probably get better prices... there's always a drop in consumer spending in January, especially after people receive their January credit card bills, so retailers put on sales to keep demand up.

You know, I would totally do that, but with some pending life changes coming up I need to do this while I still have the green light. I actually game out around 650 without monitor and OS (I already have both).