i dont want to get a quad extreme just yet due to price so ive gone with the E8500 which seems to be a good chip but i need help to choose what is the best motherboard, memory and gpu?

cuz people have said that ati r realeasin a new gpu soon and that 1066mhtz is **** any feed back muchly appreciated

yes, both ati and nvidia are releasing new chips soon, wait to buy a gpu until they come out, as for memory unless you heavily overclock then ddr2 800 is fine, you can over clock the e8400 to e8500 on a stock cooler and save a little money as for motherboard msi p45 looks like a good board and isn't much more expensive than p35 counterparts

The E8500 isn't worth the extra cost... do yourself a favor and go with the E8400. You can overclock that cpu to 3.6 just by moving up the FSB (8x400) , that way you won't have to up the voltage sans no heat issues. And like gator said, the MSI P45 board and DDR2 800 memory ftw.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115037 $189.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227267 $104.99 ($79.99 after $25.00 Mail-In Rebate)
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] +P43%2fP45 <---P45 mobo's.

ASUS P5E X38 is worth considering.
It has a separate (not onboard) supreme FX II 7.1 channel HD-Audiio card bundled.