It would be cheaper to build it yourself by far. When you ever buy a brand name computer you always pay for the name some are worse than others. What i would suggest it take that list and go to newegg.com and find all the parst minus the case and see what it comse to just find another case and get a copy of windows and see if it is less. You can only do ati for duel cards until nivida lets intel use its rights on the chips and what not. As far as know its still going on. If you see me on steam friends hit me up and i can help you out more if you need it.

The actual next-gen CPUs are based on the i7 core, but are not LGA1366. Intel has not released any mainstream i7 chips, and won't for probably another 5 months if its still holding to its tick-tock schedule. Nehalem is a server chip, and its long-term fate is subject to endless conjecture as LGA1366 is a stop-gap measure - Intel haven't yet finished finessing the new memory interconnect yet (its supposed to go thru DMI, not the MCH). Think of Bloomfield as this year's Skulltrail - designed for twin high-end Xeons and 24/7 enterprise use but capable of taking a couple of QX9775 as part of an obscene ultra-high-end performance PC that is anything but mainstream. Now substitute "SkullTrail" for Bloomfield, "LGA771" for LGA1366, "twin Xeons" for i7-920/940 and "twin QX9775" for i7-965. See any analogies forming here? Gamers trying to use cheap LGA771 Xeons for Skulltrail to bring down the price were considered barking mad, and gamers trying to use i7-920 on boards that cost more than a mid-high-end CPU are barking IMHO too

Okay, you're all mixing stuff up. The new mainstream platform is probably only 5 months off in its 45nm incarnation. This will use the Ibex Peak "not-a-northbridge" and DMI bus in place of the MCH for communications, running DDR3 in dual-channel rather than triple-channel and helping cut the CPU package pin count and possibly removing some bits of the QuickPath that sounded like it was gearing up for inter-CPU communications (in other words it sounds like only LGA1366 is gearing up for multi-CPU boards - no big surprise given its the server/enterprise platform) Obviously the mainstream platform is completely incompatible with the server-based LGA1366 (Bloomfield) which has always been the norm for Intel.

These LGA1160 desktop chips are codenamed Havendale (dual-core) and Lynnfield (quad) and the rPGA989 portable chips are rumored to be Auburndale (dual-core) and Clarksfield (quads for laptops!). All of the above will have twice as many logical cores as physical cores thanks to HyperThreading. I don't know if Intel will license SLi for these, and will probably keep it down to 2-way SLi/CF for these mainstream offerings, forcing ultra-performance gamers to blow obscene amounts on the server platform

To (over)simplify, Westmere is a blanket term covering all the upcoming 32nm CPUs based on a Corei7 die-shrink. LGA1366 Westies (server chips) are probably 11 months away, and mainstream Westies are 17 months off (if Intel keeps to its own schedule). It is also believed that 6-core LGA1160 and 6- and 8-core LGA1366 will become the new high-end following the die shrink (although it is possible Intel will try to sneak in a "field prototype" 6-core chip before the die shrink, like what they did with the good ol' Q6600)

And so... back to RealistSpy: You sold that other PC huh? Start kicking yourself right about now Sorry... you should have waited until Lynnfeld hit the shops - simply because it might have been a much better price/performance option and/or have dragged Bloomfield prices down a bit. Maybe. Unless you can magic up a cheap gaming PC to tide yourself over you're gonna be stuck blowing a couple of grand on an early i7 build