All products are picked from Newegg (duhrr) from the top of searched categories, sorted by Best Rating.
case
Antec Twelve Hundred v3 Full Tower ATX
Large, PSU is on bottom, three fans in front, two in back, one giant fan on top because
heat rises..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129100mobo
ASUS LGA1155 USB3.0 SATA 6Gb/s ATX
ASUS is good, ASUS is great. Buy this motherboard because it has great reviews and is great.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131753PSU
ZALMAN 1000 watt (1 kilowatt) PSU
Plenty of 12V rails, SLI ready, and more.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379009CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4 GHz (3.8 GHz Turbo) quad core
Why? Because... just look at it holy forget I'm moist.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070GPU
2x EVGA Superclocked nvidia GeForce GTX570 1280MB GDDR5
Two 570s is incredibly powerful. Like, holy stuff.
**Budget is hitting $2k just about so you could go for more or better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130595ramz
G.Skill 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Great RAM, great price, great speed.
**Considering your budget is just hitting $2k you could go for more.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314HD
Western Digital Caviar 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Typical hard drive. I have a WDC 640GB, its good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533+
OCZ 60GB SATA II SSD
Why NOT get a SSD? Who the hell wants to wait for your OS to boot?
**again, considering budget, you may want to get more either for OS stuff like music and all that or just programs you also want to load fast.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227716the disk drives
ASUS 24x DVD Burner SATA
It's a DVD burner drive. You can burn DVDs. I have this and it works nice for all two games I still use with DVD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204+
SAMSUNG 12x Blu-Ray Reader
Reads blurays at the fastest speed in the industry, which for some misbegotten reason is 12x. Never really had a blu-ray drive before but okay here you go.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151222mouse, keyboard,
monitorRAZER Lycosa keyboard
My brother has this and even looking at it I can tell its really great. He tells me he has had no problems and the backlit keys have not failed him at all.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823114004+
RAZER Abyssus mouse
It's a mouse. enough said.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826153061I can't really find a good 1920x1200 monitor on Newegg but everything else is here.
This all comes to around $2,153.87. If you really want you could go for some better stuff, I'll probably throw in a better PSU + GPU and maybe more RAM too.
more expensive stuff
GPU
EVGA GTX 590 3GB
This card has two 580 chips in one card. This is the ultimate card in existence.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130630PSU
Antec High Current 1200W
I hope your home's electrical circuit is prepared for this.
**Not necessary, but may make things easier for your computer.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371043And double the RAM to 16GB, same one.