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I wish to build a new gaming pc as the one below is outdated and 3 years old. I have under $1,000 and hopefully can salvage the drives, case, monitor, and power. please advise w/ specific items; I'll research for deals etc. I like the Asus boards and AMD but am open to suggestions; especially w/ the cpu. thanks kindly.



with current specs:
Motherboard:
MSI K8N NEO Platinum MS-7030
Processor:
AMD Athlon64 3000+
Memory:
Corsair 1GB TwinX 1024 4400C25 CMX512-4400c25
Video Card # 1:
NVIDIA eGeForce 6800
Hard Drive # 1:
Maxtor 6L 100M0
Hard Drive # 2:
ST3200826AS
Hard Drive # 3:
WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0
Hard Drive # 4:
WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0
Optical Drive # 1:
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M
Optical Drive # 2:
HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-4166B
Power Supply:
Antec 480 TRUEPOWER 2.0
Case:
Logisys Special edition Dracula Case
Sound Card:
Realtec AC97 Audio
Monitor:
StarLogic 19" TrueFlat CRT Monitor

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It will be used for some gaming and other apps, video, and lots of word processing. Extreme multi-tasking.

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