So I am looking over your dream system and keep wondering why you are building it with second best technology. for about $50 less spent on your processor and MoBo you can get the 920 i7 processor and MoBo. Much faster than the vanilla quad core you are currently thinking of ordering.

plus with the added feature of build in raid0, for $120 you can put two 7200rpm 500 gig HDD's in raid0, this will be much faster than your 10k 74gig raptor HDD, with the added bonus of having 15x more storage. for an additional $65 you can add another 500 gig HDD for data or for back-up. raid0 with a data drive is much better than what you are planning. for the same money you get 1.5TB of storage.

RAM: for $145 you can get 6GB of tri-channel ram ....again tri-channel ram is faster because of the memory controller is now on the i7 processor and not on the MoBo so you are not limited by your FSB speed. you can get 12gig of tri-channel memory for the same price you are planning to spend on 8gig.

I totally agree with clanked view on your videocard choice. beside not matching the video card to your MoBo/processor (I hope newegg would have caught that before shipping it to you) your again over paying for the performance you are getting. 2 ati 4870's are more than enough.

since your building a quad core why build last years quad-core computer?