Making/buying a new computer for Creative Suite CS4

Hello
    My computer just doesn't perform well with CS4.  It's sluggish and useless especially with AVCHD and raw files. I want it to be fast and smooth.  So, I'm looking for a computer with CS4 in mind.  I want something fast and cheap.  Best bang for the buck sort of speak.  Any computer geeks out there that would be kind enough to share some links or advice?  I don't care if it's Mac or PC although I've been PC up till now.
   It seems from reviews on CNET and other places that I need to buy about  a $3000 desktop for CS4 to work effortlessly.  I hope that's wrong.
Thanks for your time.
Kelly

fwiw,,,
I bought a Dell Studio XPS Win7 Ultimate.  nVidia GeForce GTX 260, 12gb 1066mhz memory, Intel Core i7-920 2.66 GHz, Dual Samsung SyncMasters 2343 (2048x1152), 1TB boot drive, 2x1.5TB data drives.
I bought the PC from the Dell Outlet, a "previously ordered" unit, monitors and extra harddrives from Microcenter.  After the OS upgrade and additional memory, it was about $2,000.
I haven't bought the Master Suite yet.  Acrobat is a no brainer, but unsure if I wanna lock myself into Adobe.  Avid's Media composer is the standard for video editing, and I know all my keyboard short cuts to my current photo editior.  Plus I don't have any upgrade path to the Master Suite from Dreamweaver, so I'll just end up with 2 Dw licenses.

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