Need some advice in purchasing a gaming PC

Something to keep in mind, wait until the Conroe processor is actually released and some real specs are run on it - right now benches run on the conroe are all things that fit in its cache, like SuperPi 1M. I'm not saying it won't kick ass (even though I'm an AMD fan), I'm just saying you should wait.

On AMD's side, they either have/are developing something called "reverse hyperthreading" which allows a dual core processor to use both cores and function as a single processor -> effectively doubling processor performance in single threaded applications.

So basically, you have two very awesome things just over the horizon, so I'd hold off just a little bit.

How ya doing, buddy?