Trim a few corners and you should be able to fit an X38 board onto your budget - remember, the motherboard is where all your upgrades are determined - if you pick a P35 board and plan to keep it for several years, you might be dissapointed with your upgrade paths in the future. As for the power supply, I'd shoot for a Corsair unit right now. Either the HX520w or the VX550w would be great.RayvinAzn

I'll do some more looking into the X38 boards tonight when I'm at work. Try to find out the prices and release dates for them. Also those power supplies look pretty good as well. Thanks for the help.

Anyone else have any comments or suggestions? Thanks again!

Thanks guys for the quick replies. I don't have my heart set on the 64 bit version of Vista. Mainly I've just been hearing that 64 bit is the 'future' (though I believe they said the same thing about XP 64 bit lol), and that it'll allow me to upgrade my RAM past 4 gigs in the future.

As for the X38 boards, they look nice I just worry that they'll be out of my price range since I'm trying to keep this somewhat of a 'budget' pc. For the power supplydo you have any recommendations?

Thanks again guys for all your help!

Hey guys, getting close to finalizing my build that I want and wanted to post here and see what everyone thought. If you have any suggestions or ideas for replacements please let me know. Currently I have a GPU and sound card that i'll be using from my previous rig to hold me over until I get some more cash. I also have no plans on overclocking at this time.

Thanks in advance to everyone!

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor$184.00

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard $129.99

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory $102.00

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $74.99

NZXT Apollo Black $69.99

Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU ATX 12V 2.0 500W Power Supply$59.99

LITE-ON SATA DVD Burner with LightScribe $39.99

Vista 64-Bit Home Premium $114.99