Graphics budget build

As 2d graphics art work is not very graphics card intensive, probably just about any ATI or Nvidia graphics card in the $100 range or so will do, preferably PCI-e to match a new socket 939 NF4 mainboard....

You could get an MSI K8N Neo4 (under $90), and perhaps a dual core X2-3800+($295) or Opteron 165 processor, 2 ea. 1gb sticks of PC3200 ($200), a case with a 450 watt PS ($100), and a Western Digital or Seagate SATA hard disk in the 200GB range ($95), preferably with a 16 m cache size....

The parts listed will run roughly $800, but that asumes you already have an operating system to install, and a monitor and keyboard/mouse...

(If forced to make a cut somewhere due to budgetary constraints, you could opt instead for a single core cpu, a 3500+ for roughly $200 is quite snappy and nice..!)