Building a new computer... suggestions?

[Tispower]

Galaki said:

106.99

Asus M2A-VM-HDMI AMD Socket AM2 ATX Motherboard / Audio / Video / DVI / HDMI / PCI Express / Gigabit LAN / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID

159.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.50GHz / 1MB Cache / 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB / Socket AM2 / Dual-Core (Brisbane) / Processor with Fan

148.99

Asus EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/256M nVidia 8600GT Chipset (540Mhz) 256MB (1.4Ghz) DDR3 Dual DVI PCI-Express Graphics Card

112.29

Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 Matched Pairs 2GB kit (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12 240-pin Dual Channel Memory

How's this? (cut back on cpu/mb and boost vid card)

I can also do away with the overkill keyboard/mouse. But I would really like to keep the 22'' screen :) Is that card good for 1680x1050?

edit: formatting to make it easy to read

 

 Yeah, it would work, I have a 1680x1050 22" LCD monitor and it works fine with a nVidia 8600GT GPU. I'd say don't go for Vista yet, because I've had loads of probs with games, I'd suggest still buying a GPU that supports DX 10 though, because you're gonna have to switch to vista anyway, and you don't want to spend extra money upgrading your GPU at the same time.