Not sure if you are willing to check this out, but I got my 2600k intel from microcenter for only 200 dollars brand new...their 2700k were on sale as well at 280 bucks at the moment. My ram was only 50 dollars per 4gigs. You shop at microcenter, ask for a price comparison from any online vendor like amazon. My computer would have cost me almost 2600 bucks had it not been for microcenter...hell, I even got my TM Warthog for 350 bones, and new rudder pedals for 90! I wound up only spending 1900 bucks for this computer, and it is NICE! That included the 27' LED monitor, the corsair case, 750w psu, 100w speaker system, and everything else you see in my sig.