My specs: (Highly recommended
Case: NZXT Phantom special edition black/orange big tower(now the case is of course your choice)
Power supply: Silver power SP-S750 750w PSU
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 LE, Socket-2011
Processor: Intel Core i7-3820
Ram: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 16GB x4
CPU cooler: Corsair H60 Hydro serier, water cooler (Could be improved, depends on how big you want your case
Graphic card (now this is beast IMO
EVGA Geforce GTX 680 2GB PhyX Cuda. (Titan is overrated and overpriced)
SSD: Crucial M4 2.5" 128GB
Harddrive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
Other specs:
Keyboard: Razer Lycosa gaming keyboard
Mouse: Razer Mamba
Headset: Logitech G35 7.1 surround sound
Monitors:
BENQ 23,6" LED XL2420T x2
But this is not a cheap set up just to let you know
It costs about 3000$
And I run mostly everything smooth on full graphics
And minecraft gives me FPS from 100-1000 (1000 on TWSG2)
Edit: I didnt see you didnt want to go higher than 1000$
) Still, buy it!!!