haha. You could just look at my signature for a recommended gaming rig as you can see I am just going to recommend my stuff My total system cost $1398 from various places.
I would highly recommend the gigabyte P35-DS3R.
is everyone going for the gigabyte P35-DS3R now? I don't see myself getting DDR3 ram in the future but I might if it gets good ( price and performance differance ), however Im a bit worried since b1gap said the DS3R has some bugs since it can support both DDR2 and DDR3 ram.