A new build for the budget

See my rig given in my sig. That motherboard is good, if it is with the nForce 4 Rev A3 than it is the same as A8N-E. Take off the stickers with A8N5X 7 Ver. 1.0. There is A8N-E printed on the mainboard. Flash the bios with A8N-E and you will get SATA2 support and more precisious voltage settings. PM me if you want details and more info.

You can buy the 3200+, it is has same price/Mhz as 3000+.

Don't buy the Kingston value RAM, it is CL3. I used it and it couldn't run stable higher than 440MHz at 2.9v with CL 2.5 3-3-8. The RAM I am using is cheaper but better: Patriot DDR-400 CL 2.5 4-4-8 2T 2.5v. At 2.9v I can run it stable on 480MHz CL 2.5 3-3-6 1T. There is "Patriot" label on the chips, I don't know what kind are they.
If you plain to overclock, I will recomend you the Geil Value One DDR-400 CL2.5. They often have the excelent BH-5 chips. BH-5 run stable over 500MHz CL2 at 3.0v.

The hard disk also can be bigger. Threre is a small difference in price between the 80GB and the 160GB models and between the 160GB and the 250GB.

I am not folowing the graphics cards performance, but I think that the 7xxx are better and not much expencive than 6xxx.

If I, possibly the most hardcore Halo fanboy in all of THG can wait for Halo 3, he can wait for Core 2. You tell him I said that.