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Great thread. I'm making the same plans myself, but on a much more modest budget. I start to get a little concerned when I think about spending more than a grand on a computer.
What I'm doing, which may help you Halx, is to buy some of the more fixed tech items along the way as I find them on sale. Newegg and other retailers routinely have a really good sale price on a case, or a power supply, or a DVD-RW drive (which, by the way, they do have SATA interface for now). Whether it is with a rebate or whatever, I'm shopping for that stuff along the way. There isn't likely to be that big of a change in the technology available in these areas, nor the prices of them at market in the next couple of months.
This obviously doesn't work for the mobo, video card, or processor. You want to wait until the last to buy those to make sure you are getting the best tech at the best price. But it might work for even the harddrive. Say you'd like to have a 1TB storage drive in the system. I just keep an eye out for major makers offered at what I feel is a good price. I saw one from Dell business the other day for $47 shipped after discounts. I missed out on that one myself, but you get the idea.
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