what is it?
and where i headed to building new now, i would just get a good board+cheap chip+2gb(or more) good ram, and a decent videocard, like a x1950gt, then wait for k10 and r600 , maby even 2nd gen dx10 cards, do that you get your dx10 card when you really need it and can take advantege of it.
3600+ x2 chip, 2gb good ddr2, tforce590, decent hold you over videocard that can be used as a ppu later(x1950gt or pro) fortron dual psu(has a 2nd psu thats just for videocards) a couple seagate prt harddrives(whateve gives best $ to gb ratio) decent case if you need one, then wait for k10, kuma and rana are due out around q3 from what i hear, and are up to 40% faster then c2d
overclock the cpu as high as you can, oh that reminds me, if your going allout, i would get a scythe infinity cpu cooler, read the review on here wiz gave it a review and its as good as water cooling(silent and powerfull).
on a 3600+ or 3800+ u should get at a minimum 2.8gz, current chips seem to hit 2.9-3.2 range on air
thats a hell of a "hold me over till k10" and when k10 hits you can alwase grab a tforce695 board and make a htpc with it
honestly, i wouldnt jump on any new videocard right now, the markets to charged, and 8800 drivers have yet to truely hit "gold" level(fullfetured, mostly bugg free, and ready for every os)
im waiting on kuma and rana(dual core k10 chips) to replace my 3500+@3gz(PIB air cooling) i wouldnt buy a pricy chip now, or pricy videocard, the next gen stuff is SO CLOSE, its better to wait a bit for r600 to hit and prices to level out on, also you may endup wanting an r600 variant insted of a 8800/8900 depending on bench scores and fetures till all players are in the market and ready to play(have games to run on them) we are just "shooting in the dark" hoping to hit a bullseye, last time i did that on a pricy video card i got a fx5800ultra, it was HORRIBLE, dx9 betas started comming out and i got into a few of them ,this $450 videocard i had just got that was top of the line and dx9 was incapable of running dx9 games without taking MASSIVE performance hits, then driver fixes where promised by nvidia , the new drivers kept making image quility worse to gain perf, even max quility settings ended up looking like low quility settings did on older drivers....in the end i sold the card and replaced it with a 9600 card that was 1/4 its price and got better perf and HUGELY better image quility.
the point is, dont buy a card for something thats not here and cant be tested, dont rush to get "bleeding edge tech" because you may pull back a bloody stump or get gangreen......
just my 30cents worth