i have $1000 for a tower. i want to make it as good as i can, what should i buy?

i have $1000 for a tower. i want to make it as good as i can, what should i buy?

Good Case - Antec Tower w\500 Watt Antec Power Supply - 120.00

Motherboard - Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 2 x PCI-E x16 SLI - 180.00

AMD Athlon64 3500+ - 270.00

1 gig OCZ CAS 2 DDR400 RAM - 160.00

Video card - eVGA e-Geforce 6600 128MB PCI-E w/ DVI, TV-Out - 150.00

HDD - Maxtor 200 Gig SATA - 90.00

LG 16x DVD-ROM 25.00

LG DVD RW+- Dual Layer - 16x8x16 - 60.00

total =

1055.00 US.... Give or take 100.00 prices are not rock solid

i have $1000 for a tower. i want to make it as good as i can, what should i buy?

i,ve heared that somewhere before... nvm

p4 3,2 LGA 775

Asus mobo with wifi, 1GBit lan, DDR2, no vga, ATA/SATA, 8ch audio,

512MB Kingston DDR2

GForce of some kind (better asus)

40 GB SATA WD Raptor

200 GB ATA/SATA WD

17' LCD Samsung/LG depends on what do you whant to use the PC for.

the rest is less important

Anyway componants vary depending on what u want to use them for: games/word processing/graphic editing?

evga i dunno about that, nvidia have it on their site and they keep sending me buy evga cards etc. but i dunno if its real good.

u could get western digital 10.000rpm raptor 37 or 74gb, price is higher but its faster if u're crazy about it, then get a 160gb another hdd at 7200rpm

if u're building this for gaming get 1gig ram, these days 512 is not enough.

if i was buying this i'd be stuck at whether to get amd or intel, i'm using athlon xp 2500+ and its pretty good but i dunno how the new athlons are compared to the 3.4ghz 2mb cache intel's..

u might want to check tomshardware for comparisons, that's what i'd do.