Does anyone have any recommendations to make on building your own computer? I came across an article at:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1549122,00.asp

on how to build your own gaming machine for under $1,000. What I would like to do is build my own machine, but I'll be using it to develop with Windows XP Professional, Visual Studio.NET, and SQL Server 2000. I am assuming that in a development machine, hard drive performance is more important than graphics performance, but is that true?