what's your budget?

i just built mine based upon the new Sandy Bridge chipset:

i7 2600K CPU with all the bells / whistles (Blu ray burner, SSDs, 16gb ram, water cooling) for about $2K

it literally screams, with the vertex 3 SSD as my boot drive ( no moving parts ) maxed out the windows experience index.

windows 7 64bit and don't look back! wink

pre-builds around the sandy bridge architecture can be had for around 1400 and up ( mine ended up @ $2000ish )

2c