$1500 PC design challenge

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

No you don't win $1500. My friend is interested in building a PC for about $1500. It'll be general purpose but with gaming in mind. Not clear if he actually needs a monitor to go with it but I'd assume he does. He's not particularly computer-savvy so I guess I'd take reliable over cutting edge.

Also, the graphics card will need TV out. I'll post some preliminary stuff after I've done more newegg research (lol).

CPU: Intel i7 920 - $288
Mobo: ASRock X58 Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 - $170
GPU:
Soundcard (I may try to talk him out of this depending on the mobo's onboard):
RAM: 6GB Corsair Dominator 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 - $230
HDD's:
Monitor:
PSU:
Case:

[pevergreen]

CPU: Intel i7 860

The rest can go around that. The 860 is cheaper and more powerful.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Marginally cheaper while sacrificing (some) of the potential upgradability. Or that's the word on the street, that the more power i9's or something will use the LGA 1366 that the 920 uses instead of the 860's 1566. The mobo is frankly the hardest choice in terms of finding reliable and recent reviews of what's where, since most of the reviews I find are from when the new wave of CPU's were released and that doesn't really reflect the state of mobos as they are between new chipset launches.

[pevergreen]

Yet will i9 be the next desktop range. I heard that they are the expensive end of the range, since i5 are the normal desktop, i7 high end.

Should the mobo have USB 3 on it? Thats a major thing as well.

[TinCow]

I'll post something, but I want to know just how much needs to be done. Are we talking just box and monitor here, or does he need peripherals (mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc.) as well?

[CBR]

If he is not computer savvy then he is not going to do much upgrading is he? The 860 is a very good cpu and the 1156 mobos are generally cheaper than the 1366. So if money is an issue he can save a bit there I think.