Looks like Weeksy and I are on the same wavelength ...
I did the full hunting process nearly two years ago and bought all my bits through
www.aria.co.uk and built the trucker myself. (still got 2GHz P4, 512MB RAM, 60GB RAID 1 set, blah blah blah ... nice machine ...)
Like weeksy I haven't kept up on these things because I'm not in the market and they change every 5 seconds (the work laptop seems to do me fine really - wireless built in and I'm running a wireless router (Vigor Draytek 2200We) - once you've gone wireless and broadband you'll wonder how you ever coped without it!!) . I can recommend the use of Aria though - when I had a video card turn up dead I told them what I did to fault find it and sent it back and they had a replacement in the post very quickly - none of your usual "It was good when it left here mate - sorry" type bs.
Good luck Backmarker.
TP