Building myself new rig, who has smooth gameplay?

[Friendly_flyer]

Hi!

I am in the process of building myself a new rig. My old one is closing in on 5 years. It is a good machine, but it can't be upgraded to the specs needed for CoD.

Browsing this forum, I see some has good FPS and little to no stutter on medium level machines, while others report the game unplayable even on high end computers. It seems to me there are some combinations of motherboards, videocards and CPUs that this game simply rub the wrong way. I have no doubt the game will become playable eventually (as it does run under some conditions) and I expect most of the problems to be ironed out in the long run. In the mean time I'd like to swim with the current rather than against it, investing in a computer that works well with the game.

So good Gentry, would those of you who have smooth gameplay care to post their machine specs and game settings?