yes my last build was a 

I7-2600k (new chips come out end of april so id wait)

4*4gig corsair ram (upgraded to 4*8 patriot ram which im not a smuch a fan of, but need it for the server)

64gig crucial m4 main drive (just swaped for a 256 samsung 830 needed more room for the server both great)

corsair 650tx bought it on the cheap its a great psu  (did not take my own advise to save a few bucks)

antec 300 illusion (great case to keep things cool but dont spend more than 55 on it)

coolermaster hyper 212+ (get a second fan for it great cooler)

MSI Z68MA-ED55-b3  (was the cheapest main board with everything i wanted been looking at ASrock a lot for the next board)

MSI R6850 Cyclone 1GD5 Power Edition/OC

(love the card but bought it knowing I would sell It to a friend who has the same board this year when I upgrade it at the time it had a 30 rebate and 2 free games )

Samsung  dvd-r/cdr & a Samsung blu-ray player

My  thoughts after my last build

Pay extra for modular power supply … unused cable hanging in the case are a pain.  Don’t but ram with large heat sinks as they will get in the way of your heat sink.

Also do you want to over clock or not? If not save some cahs and get the nonk series

 I have my system O.C to 4.2ghz without messing with the voltage, on the corsair ram I O.C d it too 1866 form 1600, was not able to boost the patriot ram cant even get it into xmp mode.

Upcoming parts for me to pick up corsair obsidian 550d (I think)  seasonic platinum 860psu – and a new gpu have not decided yet.

In the late fall if there is a ivybridge for lga 2011 I might pick up a new mobo and cpu so I can boost server ram even further up to 64gigs… if people are still playing on the vgc minecrat server… it will also give me a tower to just tinker with… it pains me not to be able to tinker at will  

Since this is my first build, I'm going to keep it simple and probably just make a general purpose computer.  I will probably use it for school work mostly.

AMD's Bulldozer might be a good fit for you, inexpensive with a solid general purpose GPU. Bulldozer hasn't lived up to the hype on the top end, but it makes a great mid-end machine. I'm less informed about the latest Intel stuff right now, so I'll let their base expand of that they offer. Last I check though if you want more cores for the price go AMD, if you want the fastest individual cores go Intel. My uses are primarily multithreaded on desktop, so I tend to AMD, but my brand new laptop is a low-power Intel i-7 varient, and it's great too.

There isn't, Intel's roadmap through 2013 was released and they still plan to sell SB-E after Haswell is released in Q2 2013.

Their plan is you can have the high-end or the smallest process node but not both.

hah, well then i more time to save the money for it then ... i think they also like tto drag out thier  server chips, and since the  highend field uses those chips we get a nice delay, .... it would be nice to see haswell with 6 memory slots but its not going to happen .... though 16gig per dim might looks like some z77 boards will have that

new egg for parts and some tutorials.
cyberpowerpc.com is fun to play with, their prices are pretty good too if your to lazy to build your own ( just don't get standard power supplies)
tomshardware is awsome aswell

---- edit sorry wrong thread