Looking to upgrade, need some help and advise and input

[tim_ver]

I am looking to upgrade been a few years so it is time to do so. I have a custom built pc now and want to do the same for the new one. Now I have a P4 2.0 with 1gig ram and a Radeon 9500/9700 pro video card and 3 Hdd drives all around 60gig each. I want to upgrade to a faster machine which is obvious. I run a lot of programs like Adobe CS, Flash 8, 3DS, and when I do this it eats up memory fast so need more and better memory. Also I am a Gamer I like Sport games Fifa 2006 Madden 2006, etc. I have a 19 inch Samsung flat panel crt now, but I would like to get a lcd 20"+ but worried about ghosting in games and poor graphics. I heard you have to stay 5ms or less but not sure.

Here is what I found so far:

Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model KHX6400D2LLK2

ABIT AW8D Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Pentium D 950 Presler 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core Processor Model BX80553950

BFG Tech BFGR79512GTOCE Geforce 7900GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Superalien ATXA6SW-BL/500 Blue Aluminum Server Computer Case ATX aluminum 500W

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3400633AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

SAMSUNG 204B-Black Black 20.1" 5ms LCD Monitor with Height, Pivot, Tilt Adjustment

 

[a-wolfgang]

Personally I would wait till 2Q-3Q 2007 when DDR 3 is being supported and hopefully intel will start releaseing 45nm products. Failing the wait till then;

Intels Kentsfield quard due to be realeased later this year, [and is awesome]
Failing that the Core 2 duo E6600 is by no means under powerd

Nvidias G80 gfx card is due for release in September so current cards will be repriced. If you dont want to fork out for the G80, which is DX10 compliant. Either way make sure its HDCP Ready, its just worth it.

MotherBoard either Gigabyte's GA-965P-DQ6 or the entry-level GA-965P-DS3 both very stable for overclocking

HDD has to be [Two of them if you need it] Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 16MB cache Sata 2 300MB/s .
I've also read that not all sata 2 drives are 300MB/s that they just have some of the features like NCQ havent seen any thing to substantiate this, but be carful when buying just in case.

Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP 20.1-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor, HDCP ready, they also have a non Widescreen version.

As for the ram my personal preferance is Corsair as a manufacturer, and I know other people will disagree with me but as long as its 2x1GB PC6200 (800 MHz) i wouldnt worry too much about latencies

I'd also stick a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card in there.

And i just dont trust power suppys that come with a case, so my chose would be Enermax 850W Galaxy.