Budget of about $7000.

3 refurbished 30" NEC monitors, $2200
1 Intel Core i7 980X, $1070
1 Intel X25-M G2 SSD 160GB, $470
1 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 64mb cache 7200 RPM HDD, $110
1 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OS, $130
1 Corsair Obsidian 800D, $300
1 Silverstone Strider ST1500 power supply, $400
1 Panasonic Blu-Ray Burner, $190

That leaves around $2400 to get motherboard, memory, and graphics cards.

I'm roughly planning $400 for the motherboard, $400 for the memory, and $1600 for the graphics cards.

Undecided on motherboard still.

Memory, I'll probably get either 12 GB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz or 6 GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000 MHz. Guess I'm just a sucker for flashy colored heat sinks.

Graphics cards, I'm thinking either dual Radeon HD 5970's or triple Nvidia Fermi 480GTX's, depending on which performs better and is actually available. In either case, that's around $1500, leaving me $100 to get some nice MDPC-X sleeving.

I plan to water cool the cpu and hopefully the motherboard chipset as well. Still need to order that, but I am waiting for a tax refund to move from stock cooling to water cooling, so don't need to get that in initial budget.

Any advice on this build would be appreciated.