My two cents...

Just upgraded my box to an I7-920 Platform. Spent $1200.00 for the upgrade minus the hard drive, OS, DVDROM and PSU. Chip Overclocked to 3.6 and the dominator mem overclocked to 1800. Spending $1200 vs $3000 plus for a mac was a no brainer. Here are my Vue 7 Benchmarks.

Here is what I purchased...

CM HAF
CM V8 - Temps under full load are aroung 66-67
Asus P6T OC/Palm
6 Gigs Dominator 1600 - overclocks nicely
EVGA Core 216 260GTX OC

CPU: I7-920 3.6ghz
Build: 38524
Compilation: 64-bit
Operating system: vista

C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark72_Land.vue : 161.4 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark74_Cerro Verde.vue : 84.6 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark77_RadiosityRoom.vue : 71.0 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark7Terrain.vue : 109.9 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark711_Peak.vue : 68.9 s

VueMark7 score : 213

BBRichter