I'm building a new computer this summer with the profits from my poker bankroll. I'm guessing I'll have somewhere from 1500 to 3K in money for this pc. I'm planning on doing at least dual monitor (but I'll probably use my gf 6800 gt and my bro's pci gf2 mx to support 4 monitors).

What I realized after glancing at anandtech really quickly is that I'm beyond out of date with computer hardware. Apparently they have dual video graphic technology now (I believe it's called SLI technology), NQC or something hard drive technology, dual core processors coming out, pci express cards, oh my.

I don't really want to start a long thread so much as ask someone who knows what they're talking about with the new tehcnologies to find me on irc and let me do a little q and a with them sometime. It would be much appreciated.

Ps. I'm a cs major and have built previous computers so I don't need help with that so much as just what is out there and available now.