Building Computer- Ideas?

Well thank you for the help and info and.. everything!

Okay well... To start, I was really hoping to keep it under $1000. I hope that's possible while somewhat maintaining the quality.

I already have a laptop which I'm using now and as **** as it is, I'm going to settle with this until it dies in a year or two.

For GPU I would go with Nvidia, just because I know they run excellent graphics. And I don't need SLI or Crossfire.

AMD is fine with me. As long as its lower price is worth it. I should also mention that I'm going to be using this for computer programming AND animation, graphic design, art etc. (double major) in addition to games and such.

With cooling, is there anything important I should consider other than water cooling?

And definitely not dual screens.

As far as assembly goes, I can do that myself.

Sweetnich needs the extra processing power for doing work in college. The extra cores on definitely the computer programming and graphics design. So it doesn't lag and hang when doing high cpu processing programs like Photoshop with the graphics card.