What card/s am I looking at? (medium - high end[SLI? no SLI?])
Whats hot as far as motherboards go?
What is my best value in processors right now?
Can I stuff all of the above into a Mid Tower CoolerMaster Elite or somesuch and get away without heat issues?
Ram / Hard Disks / & Drives seem to be cheap now a days. Is it down to preference?
Thoughts on Windows 7?
http://techreport.com/articles.x/18042
And there is no reason to not run Windows 7 on modern hardware.
I've had zero issues with it so far. Hell, even installing it was simple, clean and as hands off as was possible.