I'll side with forester and Pete on that advice. The next few months are going to see a -massive- drop in prices, mainly due to the new technologies coming out (PCI-Express, total conversion to SATA, DDR-2, AGP being phased out, the CPU socket shuffle both Intel and AMD are getting ready to do, the BTX motherboard redesign, which with force new cases, power supplies, etc). Just about everything out there is due to be obsoleted (yes, that includes the current incarations of the Athlon 64 and Opteron; the socket 754 is going to socket 939, and they don't know -what- is going to happen to Socket940). If you want blistering, but not bleeding edge, sit tight and watch the prices.