Finnally, after about 1 year saving up money )I am at the 11 year, so as you can see I dont work, I bought my rig just with, birthday gift, christmas...)! I almost cried when I bought it :) It costed me about 850€ here in portugal (1 169 dollars)...
Beucase I see some of your rigs, and I think: should have waited a few more months? But well, I am very happy with my rig I had an 8600GT and a C2D E6300 so that was a big jump!
I like it. Really balanced with some aftermarket cooling.
It's a really solid PC. It's as good as you can do without spending pointless money on upgrades that don't make sense/provide diminishing returns. Again, it's about perfectly balanced.
Yup, nicely balanced rig. I came from a C2D e8600, and a GTS 250, to an i5 3570k and ------. Oops, I spent too much on an Intel rig. GPU coming soon xD.