CPU + GPU + Mobo < $350

[The Hegemon]

Well, my 5 year old gaming system is finally biting the dust. I put up with it when half the usb ports died. I put up with it when it would only run AGP 4x instead of 8x. I put up with it when I attempted to upgrade the processor and it refused to work with the new one. But now I am unable to write any type of file larger than a couple of megabytes to my hard drive. I tested with other hard drives and got the same result, so I know it's a mobo problem. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

So I'm attempting to upgrade to a new system for as little as possible. All of the money I'm spending on this will be from what I can get for my projector, which isn't worth more than $400 used. So, I'm going to be using the same case, hard drive, cd-drives, and power supply (350 Watt). I'll also only be doing dxd9 gaming (things like World in Conflict dxd9 or Call of Duty 4).

I need:
■motherboard
■GPU
■CPU
■RAM

I plan on getting a stopgap CPU or GPU which I will upgrade later, therefor the motherboard should be good enough to put in a relatively new CPU/GPU. I will be using this PC for gaming and audio production so I'd prefer a mobo with a game/midi port, but it's not too important.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Don't need to worry about the OS either.

 

[cruiseoveride]

phenom definitely, with a 350watt psu, any other cpu would burn it out.
cheapest board, and memory,
gpu? well i'm not an ati fan boy (never owned an ati card in my life), but the new cards are very good with power saving, so go for an ATi. good luck.

 

[dirtmountain]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128077
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115052
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227139
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130332
$348 before taxes/shipping and before rebates, it will be pushing your 350w PSU though
in fact after you turn in the $55.00 rebates for the RAM and GPU, get this for a new PSU and still stay in budget
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341005