Ok, so I've been thinking about a lot of things that people have been saying in here lately. I appreciate everyone's help, and I hope that this can remain a civil discussion. I do want to say that I think I went a little overboard in my initial setup, and that scaling some of it back a bit would prevent me from overdoing things.
As far as SSD's go, I wanted one because of the read/write speeds. It appears, though, that in order to get the space I need, I'm going to be spending more money than I really want to spend on storage. I think I'm going to take the suggestion of a Samsung F3. I don't really need 1TB of storage, so I'll probably go with the 500GB model for $55.
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Based on some of the reading I've done on video cards and the suggestions of some people here, I think I'll go ahead and switch to a single XFX 5870 (maybe splurge on a second one for crossfire at a later point in time).
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I like also the Samsung LED monitor that was suggested, so I'll switch my setup to include one of those.
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I think I'm going to scale back to 6GB of RAM. Switching over to OCZ gets me lower timings and a lower price. It looks like I may have to set some settings manually when going with the EVGA board, but I don't think that'll be too hard.
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The CPU/MoBo combo that crazyeyesreaper suggested looks good to me.
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The reason I chose the fan that I did was because it seemed to be a good combination of CFM with a low noise level. The one you're suggesting, crazyeyesreaper, can get up to 31 decibels, which is far above the 19 and change at which the Noctua maxxes out. The one you suggested is 30 bucks cheaper, though. I'm not sure it's going to make a whole heckuva lot of difference, and I'll make that decision when I make the final purchase.
I'm going to stick with the Silverstone RV-02 case, the Corsair 750W power supply, and the Windows 7 home premium OEM.
Essentially that leaves peripherals. Optical drive (thanks, crazyeyesreaper, for your suggestion), speakers (not sure I need a sound card), keyboard, mouse, headset, etc.