My own system

Nice, should last you 3 years easy.

bulldoze sucks badly, get an i5 2500k or i72600k or if you must be amd like me get the 1100t, much cheaper, better sigle core performance.
get a 750W+ psu just in case
16gb of ram is overkill, you could get 8gb
gpu is awesome
get one monitor only, I recommend the the asus PA238Q or the Dell U2412HM
mobo, stay with for amd, get a z68 for intel.
thermaltake ive had problems with, have a look at the cm690 II or HAF 912+
id get a 64gb ssd as boot and 1tb hdd as data drive

If you dont game you dont need a 6950...complete waste of money for you.
Change to an i7 for autocad, 400w psu should be enough.
Get an SSD now since you dont need a graphics card.

autocad may benefit alot from the gpgpu of the 6950 though.

You want to make sure you DO purchase a good videocard for auto cad.. which I assume you know cause you got a decent card for the job. Not sure if an Nvidia card would be a better purchase considering they may have better support for gpu number crunching in the future but thats something to think about.. Not sure if auto cad has implemented any gpu cuda support yet. you might want to up the PS to 750 instead of 600 and bulldozer may seem slower now but I see patches for large programs to utilize it better in the future a very real possibility. bavman is wrong on the video card.. and 16 gigs of ram is a good idea especially if you are going to work on multiple projects.. have one render and work on another at same time..SSD is a definate especially for OS and autocad.. and just throw all the projects on a large drive.. You could look into a hybrid drive but I haven't researched on how useful they end up being as a secondary drive.

thanks guys. i know intel might have its pros but im staying with amd. ive also heard that bulldozer sucks but it will get better im sure.
reason im getting 16gb ram is because i multitask. i dont want to get slowed down cause i have multiple apps open.
ive looked into hybrid drives but ive also not researched them enough to jump into buying one. maybe tho when i upgrade my HDD.
ill prolly buy 60 gb ssd for OS/autocad/photoshop and maybe a couple more apps.

thanks for helping, im not too familiar with pro programs like auto cad, and bulldozer struggles to beat the i7 or even the i5 in auto cad, which i doubt will be helped unless amd performs some miracle

Before you dish out 250 for a graphics card, do your research and look at the autodesk website to see which cards are supported. Most likely youll need a workstation card like a firepro or quatro card. also consider what you will be doing in autocad, if your not doing 3d work just skip it all together.

it mean autocad is going to run without a graphics card. its run right now on my crappy integrated card. but im wanting to run atleast 3 monitors and many CAD apps to run smoothly.. i mean i dont see $250 being too bad for something that ill be able to use for my personal computer for years and years. i mean unless i wanna start running more than 6 monitors or its dies.

arn't they overpriced and baisicly worse? I would still get a gpu, but maybe go for a 6850

Not overpriced..your paying a premium for the ability to use special drivers that accelerate special programs. Are they worst? No, theyre about 99% the exact same as their "normal" graphics card counterpart with small hardware changes to allow them to use different drivers.

I would say get a cheap gpu like a 6750 since a nice one wont give you extra benefits, but it will still be able to support 3 monitors. With the extra money you save get a ssd which will make a huge difference in your daily usage compared to normal hdd.

Did you look at theyre website like i recommended earlier?
go here:http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/cert?siteID=123112...

Fill out what program you'll be using and see their recommend graphics card.

ok, he can choose then, rather than arguing about it.