So I'm goin with...

[shaun973]

I think so far...

MOBO - ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

Case/PowerSupply - XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450 Watt (P4 & AMD Ready) Power Supply

RAM - CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3120814A 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive

Cpu - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor

VideoCard - POWERCOLOR 1900XT512OEM Radeon X1900XT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card

Only thing I'm worried about is the cpu. I want to be able to play games at their highest settings and the 2.0GHz cpu I'm not so sure about even though its highly suggested. Will I be able to play games like Oblivion and F.E.A.R at their highest settings with this set up? Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[Tempus84]

Any particular reason for an IDE hdd? SATAII drives are practically the same price, if not less and perform so much faster. Most games these days rape your hard drive, so might be a good idea to go SATAII. That board supports it

Oh and you'll easily get that CPU to around 2.4Ghz with a good cooler. Don't know about *max* settings, but you're about three quarters of the way there.

 

[Ultraviolet]

Yep looks good. Yes with that gpu you should be able to play games at the highest settings.

But i would phone ASUS and confirm that that mobo will work with that psu. Believe me, it may save you time and money in the future

 

[mesarectifier]

The hard disk is the only concern, first of all about the fact that it's IDE, second that it's only 120gb, and third that more than 8mb cache is vital for IDE drives to keep up.

That and the fact that Asus AMD boards hate all power supplies.

 

[shaun973]

I accidently put the wrong HDD down, the one I'm going to get is Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. I think that will be better, but I should make sure that the cpu will work with the mobo before I buy it?

 

[mesarectifier]

The socket is right, it's a new board - all it should need is a BIOS flash, if that.

Great call on the hard drive - 250gb is a great size and 16mb cache kicks ass.

 

[shadowduck]

The socket is right, it's a new board - all it should need is a BIOS flash, if that.

Great call on the hard drive - 250gb is a great size and 16mb cache kicks ass.

X2s work on that board out of the box according to Asus. Agreed on the hard hard too... i have a250GB 16MB cache drive and its great.

 

[DestroyerOfSenses]

You might wanna look at an opty they OC very well (if you are Ok w/ OCing) AND they have twice the cache, cool thing is they are only about $30-$50 more on newegg:
Opty 165

X2 3800+

Everything else looks solid (including the suggestions by the others)