I did it.  I dropped afew grand yesterday and got a new system.
Ill post full specs in abit but to summarise.

PIV 2000Mhz
384MB of RAMBUS (yes it did hurt)
GF3Ti 200 (that also hurt)
120GB HDD (Suprisingly cheap)
SB Live (Nuffin special)

Like I said Ill post full specs later, but that is enough to give you the idea.....yay for raw power...now where did I put that liquid nitrogen..