[timholt]

Men, I am absolutely overwhelmed by these responses - once again many thanks.

I had a look the Mag Naz mentioned yesterday, went straight over to the right hand column titled 'the beast', glanced down the bottom and saw $1500 plus. Thought this is not bad and went one column left (the beastie) and saw $2,975, rechecked the right hand column (the beast) again and its $15,615.
When the palpitations ceased I had a slower look at the beastie column and, without the periphials that I already have it is thus;
CPU Intel i7 2600 $339 or AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.4gh
Mobo Asus P8P67 Pro $239
Ram Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz (2 x 4Gb) $149
Video Gigabyte HD6950 (1GB) crossfire $640 ( but I read somewhere RoF does not like crossfire???????) or a Radeon 6950 2GB
Power Silverstone Strider 850W Gold $229
Samsung SH-B123A Blu-ray optical drive combo $69 (do I really need blu-ray for 2 flight sims only)
Storage WD Caviar Black 1TB $120
Case Coolmaster CM690 II Advantage $140

The only item not mentioned is a sound card.

Look OK gurus?

I will still take the advice of waiting for some feedback on CoD after release and some user comments but at least I feel some headway has been made, rather than head done in as per the previous 2 days.