"not sure how high I would overclock it, but I'd perfer to get cheaper ram than the corsair are there any companys that have good ram that I don't have to start selling my organs to afford?"
I would buy Infineon 3rd cl2 modules. They are the same than the "original" Infineon and also have 10 years warrantee (the warrantee voids when you overclock). In the area where In life 256MB Infineon 3rd modules (PC2700, I dont know the price for PC3200) only cost about 10$ more than no name modules. There is no price difference between cl2 and cl2.5 modules.
"Oh one other thing, perhaps I misunderstood when they said all the nForce features; does the lan, firewire, etc count as nForce features? Because I was thinking that it was talking about features in the nForce chipset that would effect gameplaying like through the communication of the CPU motherboard, harddrive sound and video cards? or on the webpage I listed above were they talking about the firewire etc when they said all the features of the nForce?"
The only features you can mean are BIOS settings. I dont know the BIOS settings of the Asus board, but I know the settings of the Epox board: This board is one of the few boards where you can freely choose the multiplyer w/o doing anything to the CPU (you need a Thoroughbred B CPU, I dont know if it also works w/ Barton). w/ most mobos you can only choose a maximum multiplyer of 12.5 (If your default multiplyer is not higher than 12.5) or above 12.5 (if your default multiplyer is higher than 12.5). I think the you can also do this w/ the Abit mobo. w/ other mobos you eighter have to connect two pins on the bottom of the CPU or do something else to get higher/lower multiplyers. About other BIOS settings: You can adjust everything you want w/ the Epox 8RDA+ except VDD voltage. You can set a higher VDD voltage, but it doesnt have any effect because the mobo is missing the circuit for that. You will have to make a mod to change this. You can set the FSB from 100 to 240 in 1MHz increases or to Auto, the Vcore from 1,4V to 2.2V in 0.025V increases or to Auto, the VDIMM can be set to 2.53V, 2.63V, 2.77V or 2.9V or to Auto and the VAGP can be set to 1.5V-1.8V in 0.1V increases. You can also set all possible memory timings in the BIOS. You can also set the Multiplier from 3 to 24. The incresemants are 0.5 between 5 and 14 and 1 between 3 and 5 and between 14 and 24.
I dont know if this webpage also meant FireWire, LAN,... , but I think so because it was an overall summary and not only an overclocking summary.
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
Epox 8rda+
Thermaltake Volcano 7+
2x256 MB PC2700
Creative GeForce 4 Ti 4800 (4600 Chip)
Chieftech Case
WD 80GB/8MB HDD
16x48 DVD-ROM
20x10x32 Burner