Best "non-SLI" gaming results for $1500...

Budget: 1500 USD
Purpose: Gaming, photo and music storage (=> compromise large drive for fast one)
OC: Only gfx card near end of life (ie. after 2 years)
Reuseable components: none, this heap of Dell shit id for the trash can.

Mobo: ASUS A8N-E
(SLI is not important, prefer complete gfx board change in 2 years)
Mem: any 2x512MB dual channel approved by ASUS
(budget limit hinders going to 2Gig)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan (SanDiego)
PSU: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 460W, 120mm Fan, 2xSATA, ATX, PCI-E, 20/24pin
Gfx: XFX GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 eXtreme, PCI-Express, Dual-DVI, VIVO, 450MHz
(I understand that this is best for OCing)
HD: Samsung SpinPoint P120S 200GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM NCQ
(Quiet is important)
DVD: NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x, Dual, Black OEM

Case: Antec P160 Miditower, Silver, Side window, (Without PSU)
(is this case one of the quiter ones? 2x120mm fans)
KB+mo: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500, USB/PS2
LCD: Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 930BF TCO-99 Monitor, DVI-D, D-sub, 4ms
(Budget does not stretch to Viewsonic VP930)

SIMPLE QUESTION: Staying in the same budget, are their better components I should chose or some re-balancing worth doing?

Cheers for the comments,
Rollercoaster

Sorry, forgot that part.


Also, want mobo with good manual and easy install as do not have lots of build experience :-)

97 Mobo: ASUS A8N-E
100 Mem: any 2x512MB dual channel approved by ASUS
235 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan (SanDiego)
82 PSU: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 460W, 120mm Fan, 2xSATA, ATX, PCI-E, 20/24pin
412 Gfx: XFX GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 eXtreme, PCI-Express, Dual-DVI, VIVO, 450MHz
99 HD: Samsung SpinPoint P120S 200GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM NCQ
45 DVD: NEC DVD±RW burner, ND-3550A, 16x, Dual, Black OEM
105 Case: Antec P160 Miditower, Silver, Side window, (Without PSU)
60 KB+mo: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500, USB/PS2
375 LCD: Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 930BF TCO-99 Monitor, DVI-D, D-sub, 4ms

Actually it comes to 1610 :-)

I like everything except the video card

For 459usd you can get an egva 7800gtx 470core and 1200memory.
This gives you a little more headroom for overclocking.