$4000 build budget

Case / PSU Combo - There's no better deal than the Antec 1200 / CP-850. The HAF-932 w/ Corsair HX-850 would be a performance match but that combo is $80 more and the Antec CP-850 is significantly quieter. This will serve with twin 5850's, twin 5870's or twin 470's.($260 for both). If you no likie the bling, the LED's have OFF switches.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.387490 for Antec Combo ($260)

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811119160 GAF 932 ($150)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139011 Corsair HX850 ($190)

If you go to twin 480's or twin 5970's, you'll want this Antec Combo ... 1200 case w/ CP-1000 PSU ($284) ....$85 cheaper than other alternative
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.387033

or

Upgrade to the HX 1000 ($220) ...$370 w/ HAF 932

MoBo / CPU - If you're not a big overclocker .... just wanna OC it, get a good one and leave it alone from then on it
Asus P6X58D-E w/ i7-930, the P6X58D-E is the single LAN version of the venerable dual LAN P6X58D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.378938 ($504)

If you love overclocking and can use the features ... this one has many features you will and some you likely will never use .... such as using your iPhone to change BIOS settings

Asus Rampage III Extreme w/ i7-930
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131642 ($380)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115225 ($289)

RAM - At your budget, CAS 6 DDR3-1600 Mushkin Low Profile Redlines which won't interfere with CPU cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820226121 ($215)

Hard Drives - $85 Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148433

SSD - Vertex 2 baby .... 100 GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227529 ($449)

CPU Cooling - $100

Heat Sink - For performance and ease of installation, the Prolimatech Megahalems fits both criteria. Here's what I'm putting in new builds Mega w/ IC Diamond TIM and twin Scythe PWMfans (make sure ya MoBo can handle the fan wattage). ($65 for the HS, $7 for TIM, $11 each for two PWM fans and $7 for a Y cable splitter).
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] _Item.html
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http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] 36c365s936
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] Cable.html

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Recommended_Heatsinks
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GFX - Lotsa choices

Twin 470's (Use 850 watter) - 2 x Asus ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5 ($700)... Comes with free DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121372

Twin 480's (Use 1000 watter) - 2 Asus ENGTX480/2DI/1536MD5 ($1020)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121373

Twin 5970's ....still at $100 over MSRP so can't recommend on principal.

Monitor - If accurate color is important, you want a Dell U2410 which has graphics professional quality color ... one of the only monitors suitable for a photography buff and gamer. Look foi deals at fatwallet.com and techbargains.com which have it down close to $520 about evry 3 weeks ....

$513 at Amazon and Buy.com
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-UltraSh [...] B00302DNZ4

Auxillary fans - Buy the two optional fans for the 1200 w/ twin 480's Antec 120 mm FAn ($16 x 2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835209011

Card Reader - AFT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820176016 ($34)

Blue Ray Writer - Hey, you got the budget why note, get the fastest on the planet
Plextor BX940-SA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827249057 ($240)

$3642 if I did my math right

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] air%20800d or this its also a very good and beautiful case.

And do you have keyboard and mouse Or should we include that? If we should Get a RAT 9 and this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 53&Tpk=g19

Those are all good ram sets

The question is simply how much you want to spend on ram. With this budget I'd drop the mushkin blacklines in any case.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product these are also good you could give the extra stick away since you don't need it. I don't know whether you can use the 4th stick without affecting performance you'll have to ask someone.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product also very good a bit slower and cheaper than the dominators you mentioned.

Also dominators may seem overpriced looking at their stats but like intel cpu's they can OC a lot whereas for example the mushkins are stock clocked a lot closer to their potential like amd cpus

Indeed mobo doesn't really have anything to do with it. And the version has far worse cooling which matters for extreme OC and doesn't have onboard switches for the rest they are identical. The mushkins arent faster than the dominators GT or the tridents.

Since the tridents and dominators can really be OC'd whereas the mushkins not as much.

After reading this thread about motherboards: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] therboards

where the ASUS P6X58D Premium was mentioned and also another motherboard which seemed to be favoured in that thread, EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

So my question is, is the Premium not worth getting? Most here have mention the -E version.

Also what are your thoughts on the EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED.

I should have probably mentioned this at the start but i will most likely overclock to around 4Ghz, so i think that will effect what mobo i get.

Thanks in advance for the help.

^ Hell, with a $4k budget, you probably should be looking at water cooling. Not air cooling.