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Virtually no games will gain any advantage from multiple processors.
That's a HUGE budget. but if you're buying Xeons it won't last too long....
Personally, with that budget I'd have a Compressor-cooled CPU, and at least watercooling for everything Video card and chipset, and then I'd overclock the crap out of everything. Then I'd volt-mod the graphics card & overclock it some more! 
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In all seriousness, I would build an Athlon 64 system. Either an overclocked 3200+ or 3500+ (with a lot of cash sunk into cooling it with either Water or Vapo), or if not into overclocking then a FX-55 or 4000+.
Graphics will be either 2 6800Ultras in SLI (bad bang/buck ratio really, but you have a high budget), or an Ati X850-based solution. I believe ATI will soon have their own SLI-equivalent solution, but I haven't really read up on it yet.
RAM? 2Gb I guess... 1Gb is plenty these days, but if you're after the ultimate, then what the hell.
That's a HUGE budget, but make sure you get a really nice monitor, and some really nice digital surround speakers for a good gaming experience...
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"Sex without love is an empty experience...
But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best" - Woody Allen
Personally, I'd build a rig for around $4000, and party like a madman with the rest.... 
the Difference in the Rig's power would be minimal, but the short-term fun index would be exponentially higher
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"Sex without love is an empty experience...
But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best" - Woody Allen
Skip the dual Xeon. Go dual Opteron or something fun.
And don't forget to use SCSI for your hard drives. A three disk 15K RPM RAID5 array should do you. 
<pre>Antec Sonata 2x120mm
P4C 2.6
Asus P4P800Dlx
2x512MB CorsairXMS3200C2
Leadtek A6600GT TDH
RAID1 2xHitachi 60GB
BENQ 16X DVD+/-RW
Altec Lansing 251
NEC FE990 19"CRT</pre><p>
| Quote : Couldn't he do an 8 disk 0+1 array? |
Why go RAID0+1/01/10/whatever when you can do RAID5? You just end up wasting more disk space when RAID1ing a RAID0 array. Personally I don't even understand why people bother doing it that way. If you're going to go RAID0 you might as well just get a large single drive to back up your RAID0 array dayly/weekly/whenever. That or go RAID5 and have the best of both worlds with much less wasted drive space.
| Quote : Oh, of course he shouldn't forget a build-in cigarette lighter and a jet propulsion system. |
And a programmable front panel LCD connected VIA USB so that you can know what MP3 files you're playing. 
That reminds me, I still have to mod my short range FM transmitter to run off of an AC adapter instead of batteries and pick up a cheap used AC powered 20GB MP3 player so that I can have a 24/7 in-home commercial-free radio station.
<pre>Antec Sonata 2x120mm
P4C 2.6
Asus P4P800Dlx
2x512MB CorsairXMS3200C2
Leadtek A6600GT TDH
RAID1 2xHitachi 60GB
BENQ 16X DVD+/-RW
Altec Lansing 251
NEC FE990 19"CRT</pre><p>
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