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[Berath]

A good PSU is essential, I'd say buy one with an eye to future upgrades and additions to your system.

One of the biggest mistakes I made with my last rig was listening to the bloke in the shop and buying an underpowered PSU (it was Yoyotech, I was expecting to get good advice - they should know gamers, he also assumed on no evidence that it was the first pc I'd built). It took just one graphics card update and an extra HD and I was having to buy a new one.

[DeadlyAvenger]

Yeah - if you buy a really good PSU now you can expect to take it from PC to PC without any problems. They do age slightly over time but mine has a 7 year warranty (Corsair HX 750) so I shouldn't need to buy a new one for a long time (I'm expecting my watercooling to leak onto it before it breaks).

[Zarf]

SSD's are into no-brainer money now. I picked up a 120GB Vertex 2E (Older model, but still very quick) for £43 Delivered the other day from Overclockers.co.uk, it's just for my new Virtualisation server (18GB RAM, i7 920@3.5GHz). I may even grab another one if I see them a that price again and run RAID1.
We've started replacing any failed HDD's at work with 60GB Intel SSD's now. They are the same price as a mechanical, comfortably hold our deployed OS image and make a huge difference to the user experience. We'll probably actively replace next summer and get an extra few years out of our aging Core2Duo workstations. One of these with an SSD is nicer to use 95% of the time than a brand new £500 i5 machine with a mechanical drive.

I've just worked out I have 680GB worth of SSD spread around my various comps now, and almost 1TB if I include my parents laptops that I upgraded.

[hawt!]

So after 7/8 months of deliberating, it's finally ordered.

Got an insane deal from Chillblast at Terror's recommendation. Thanks to everyone who helped me decide on the parts, should be here next tuesday.