OK, so I went out and laid my cash down on this baby:

• Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (G0 stepping) - 2.4GHz, 95W (Reports of overclocks to 4GHz on air - I don't know if I believe that, but it's still a monster overclocker)
• Asus P5K-E
• 2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400
• Zalman CNPS 9700 HSF
• Leadtek Winfast PX8800GT
• 1xSeagate 160GB SATA-II HDD (I'll install Ubuntu to it, freeing up my Raptor for Windows gaming and my old SATA-I WD Caviars as either storage space, or a striped RAID - I'll check out some benchmarks before I decide)

It should all arrive by the middle of next week.