I'm upgrading!

[Joker II]

... $7,549

Dual nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB
4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz OC'd to 1066MHz-4 DIMMs
Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6850 (8MB,3.67GHz Factory overclocked)

Downgrade your graphics card and CPU, are you planning to overclock your memory? No? Buy other memory ! Get two harddisks and put them in RAID 0. Will give you a much better performance ! Use them for installing all your software and get a third harddisk for all your data !

What do I think about $7,549 ?

[TosaInu]

$2,000 would buy more than a decent system today, $500-$1,000 will buy a smart upgrade after several months-year, $1,000-$1,500 will upgrade it completely in 1.5-2 years, then it will be faster than the $7,549 configuration, you get three purchase satisfications instead of one and will save at least $3,000.

A quadcore for games is just throwing away money at this point.