Barebones System with Upgrade Options

Hi again!

A few weeks back, the fine resident experts helped me build a budget PC for my mother's birthday, which turned out to be a smooth running beast at an affordable price! She couldn't be happier. The problem is, about a day after ordering it, my laptop died! (Technically it took a big spill, shattering many things within it!)

So I'm in a bind, needing to get myself up and running again, but not having the full budget to go as big as I want until probably after the holidays.

I have Win7, monitor, keyboard, and mouse covered. I am a casual gamer, playing mostly Warcraft and Half-Life 2 (yes, still!) but I'd love to be able to play SC2, Diablo3, and other games at some point--still, onboard GFX should be fine until I can order a great video card later. I'm not sure enough in the benefits of Crossfire or SLI to know if I'd even need it or want it down the line.

As for product preferences, I'm open to most any suggestions although a larger, roomy case that looks good would be nice.

My budget to start is about $400 though I'd love to stay under that. Is it a bad idea to buy now? Should I wait until BF to see if Newegg throws down some killer deals?

Thanks for any input folks!

So what all are you looking into getting? a fully operational, budget desktop now?

Do you still have the Motherboard? CPU "Processor"? PSU??? "power supplie"? hard drive?

Not many combos, I don't know what happened to them.

ASRock 890GM PRO3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813157192
AMD Athlon II X3 440
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103843
OCZ Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 + OCZ Fatal1ty OCZ550FTY 550W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.545739
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152181
Rosewill Blackbone + LG 22X DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.542821

$397.93

Edited to add a HDD.

For now you can game on lower resolutions and settings on the integrated GPU, later you can add a HD 6850 for full HD gaming.

Thanks guys. I substituted a few things in Mosox's build (X3 440 for the X3 445, and a roomier case) and pushed it to $410, but it's lookin' pretty good so far. I see the mobo supports Hybrid Crossfire... is that something worth investigating or will an HD6850 pretty much take care of me? The little I've read on Hybrid Crossfire seems to indicate it's... lackluster.