My specs, no pics yet.
Intel X6800 (Extreme Dual Core @ 2.93 GHz)
4 Gig Corsair DDR2 XMS2
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard
XFX 7950GT 512 Meg Video Card
Antec NEO HE550 Power Supply
Creative Labs X-FI Sound Card (Still no Linux Drivers!!)
Plextor 760A DVD-+RW DL drive
Plextor 712A DVD -+RW Drive
1x320 GIG WD Drves (OS and games)
2X750 G WD drives (RAID 1)
Vista Ultimate 64 Bit (don't buy Ultimate it's not worth it, mine was a present from my wife)
I hear people all the time complain about Vista. My Vista doesn't lock up or Blue Screen. It runs for weeks without needing a reboot. But I still have some minor issues with certain games.
IMHO XPee is still the better platform for gaming. Actually I would prefer to use Linux. I'm too lazy to reload it.
Machine was built in November of 2006. Only upgraded the memory and added the 2 750 gig drives since then. I know the video card is getting dated but still runs everything just fine. When I built the machine the NVidia 8000 series was just released, I'm not spending $600 on a video card that will be worth half that in 6 months.