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Well I just bought the parts. I ended up getting the 500 GB HD, since it was only about $5 more than the 320 was on other sites. Also I got Xp home edition for my os for like $190. Total price was...

I'm about to but the parts, but I couldn't find a 320 GB HD, so I went with the Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB HD instead. Will that cause any problems? Otherwise I found all the parts on Newegg...

As you know, I've got $1300-$1500 to spend and an old dell monitor. I don't know if the monitor will even show the graphics a good card will put out. Thanks for all the help.
-Mike

Probably around $1300 or so. I could spend up to probably $1500 though, especially if a monitor is needed.

I want to make basically the same computer you outlined, but I also need an OS with it. Which one should I get? All I know is that it should be 64 for the 4 GB RAM. Also, I have an old Dell computer...