Sorry to hear about that, F9thRet.



As far as a system, you have two basic choices.

If you go with an i7-3930K based system, you get six physical cores each with its corresponding logical core.
The chips are one generation back from the current (i7-3770K), but with the increased ram bandwidth are basically equal for single games.
However, if you box enough accounts, having six physical cores is going to be an advantage over having four physical cores.
The 3930K is basically twice the price of a 3770K.

A 3930K motherboard will support 64GB of ram (quad-channel), while a 3770K will support only 32GB (dual-channel).
Chances are, unless you want to play around with a ramdrive, 32GB will be plenty for just about anything.

If you're not likely to box a large number accounts (say 5-6 max), the 4770K is scheduled for release in June.
It is basically a 10-15% more powerful 3770K, and will probably retail for what the 3770K is going for now.
If there's a decent chance you'll want to 10-box (or the equivalent in another game), the 6 core might be the way to go.

Additional components are basically going to be the same across either platform.
Whatever video card you pick for one, could go into the other.
Same for hard disks (storage) or an SSD etc.

For most games boxed, the upper limit (bottleneck) in terms of maximum accounts, is going to be video ram.
Depending on the game, processor and/or video card is going to determine smoothness and level of eye-candy.





Last summer, I personally went with:

OS: Win7 Professional, 64-bit.
Case: Antex 1100 Gamer
Processor: i7-3930K
Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X79
Ram: Corsair Vengeance CL 8, 32GB DDR3 1600MHz (low profile)
Video: EVGA GTX 670, 4GB Superclocked
SSD: 2x OCZ Vertex 3, 120GB, striped into a Raid0 format.
Storage: 2x Seagate 3TB 7200rpm drives.
PSU: Corsair Modular, 1050 watt.

I'm using a pair of Samsung 27" LED widescreen monitors (SyncMaster SA350s).
If you wanted three monitors, you might want an ATI card instead of an Nvidia as they can have more monitor plug-ins.

OCZ is experiencing some financial issues.
I'd personally go with Samsung 840s, if I were getting SSDs today.