I’m looking at a new rig. Below is what I have in mind. I’m trying to decide between this and a similar 2600K based system which would be a bit cheaper. I know the video card is not great but my scenes are not large (mostly mesh display for still images) and I don’t plan on GPU rendering. I’m planning on overclocking this a bit. Any feedback would be much appreciated!

Intel Core i7 970, 3.2GHz (Six Core) 12000K
Antec KUHLER H2O 620 extra quiet Liquid Cooling System
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R X58, DDR3, SATA3, SLI & X Fire, GB LAN, USB 3.0,iEEE
12GB (6x2GB) PC3 12800 DDR3 1600 Triple Channel
GeForce GT 240 1GB PCI EXpress 16X dual head, HDMI
128.0GB Crucial C300 Series Solid State Drive, SATA3 6.0Gb/s, 350MBs
500.0GB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA2, UDMA 300 8m cache
LG 22x DVD Recorder Dual Layer +R/RW -R/RW
Realtek HD digital audio (onboard)
Ethernet network adapter (onboard)
Thermaltake V3 black edition, front USB
Case Fan 120 mm Extra Quiet DC fan
Thermaltake TR2 650W ultra quiet ATX Power Supply, SLI & X-fire ready
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit DVD

Price $1918

the biggest thing that sticks out at me is that the graphics card is old and week. go for something in the 500 series like the gtx 550ti if you on a budget.

3Ds Max 2012+Sp2 +SAP, Vray 2.2, Photoshop CS5.1
OS - Windows 7 Pro x64 Sp1
sys1: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 Ram, MSI GTX 580 (3GB) (295.51), OCZ vertex 2 120GB SSD, Wacom Intuos 3
sys2: i7 2600k (OC to 4.2GHz), 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 Ram, MSI GTX 560 (1GB) (295.51), wacom bamboo