Assistance needed for new PC purchase

This nice tax return money is about to make it over here, so I'm looking to finally get rid of my current piece of trash PC. I would appreciate some assistance on what to get (since I have no idea what I'm doing). My budget is around $2000 and I'm looking to use it as a gaming PC to last me for a good few years. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Here's what I ended up going with.

Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg

Stuff just came in the mail today too. I hope I don't run into any serious problems...

How ya doing, buddy?

Well, we're going to be using thermal paste on the top of the processor. Figure I might as well have added that in there. The Wolfdale processor sold out while we were in the middle of checking out. I didn't really want to go under a 3.0 ghz so I went with that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I feel ya. The only direction I've been getting is from a very trusted friend of mine. We're gonna build it tomorrow.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

According to the research we did, Dual Core is currently better for gaming than quad core since there still isn't any PC games that fully utilize thread lining.

So the PC is built and runs like a dream. My mobo came with Stalker so I ran it on max settings. Very impressive!

I was speaking idiomatically.