I would go for the e8500 or e8400 (i just got this) due to you can overclock them to 4ghz easily and save some $$
Personally I would go with getting a similar motherboard to this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...128358&Tpk=UD3Prunning a GTX 285 vid card and waiting on getting ddr3 and sli due to the fact this card ran in sli needs a 24"+ moniter to take advantage of it really and unless you get an i7 you will have to change out motherboards when you do upgrade.
So IMO I would go with something like this
cpu =
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115036mobo =
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...128358&Tpk=UD3Pram 8xgb =
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231194fan if ocing =
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...k=Dark%20knightvid 285 here or find you a 295(newegg is sold out of em) =
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130446hdd = couple of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136074 or you can go for a velociraptor
something along those lines and when i7's drop in price and the motherboards/ram gets cheaper upgrade the cpu/motherboard/ram and another card thats what I plan on doing