June 2012 Mid Range AMD Build:

Asus M5A97 AMD 970 AM3+ Motherboard
AMD CPU FX Series 6100 Black Edition Six Core Processor Bulldozer
Corsair Memory Vengeance Blue 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz
COOLER MASTER HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1
650W OCZ ZT Modular PSU
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB
Corsair 60GB Force Series GT SSD
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB Hard Drive

$750

You could also drop the SSD and bump the GPU.

Neat.

As for teh SSD?GPU bump choice, it depends on your desires: do you want faster program loading, or higher PFS in your games?