i'm getting a new PC, i'm going to sell my old box for a good price.

I already chose:

HDD Seagate 120GB 7200RPM 8MB $85
RAM 1GB DDR2-533 $98
DVD Pioneer 16X DVDRW Dual Layer $75
Floppy Sony Floppy Drive 1.44 3.5" $9 :lol:

I need your advice on choosing a:

CPU: (AMD {is WinXP64 any good?} or Pentium 4)
Motherboard
GFX Card: not much of a gamer but I need a decent one.
Case: a cool case (both meanings).
Cooling Solution: for the CPU

total budget: ~900$
My Recommendation:

Pentium 4 :2.8 GHz E - LGA775 [$167.00]
Motherboard: Asus P5WD2 Premium [$366.00]
VGA:Inno3D Geforce PCX 6600GT 128MB w/TV [$199.00]
Sum: $805 (including tax) that leaves u with 95$ to spend on your case and cooling system. Those prices were from pcandparts... Hope this helped

--Not so satisfied with the CPU though , i'd rather go with one of those:
3.2 GHz F - LGA775 800MHz/2M $227.00
3.0 GHz F - LGA775 800MHz/2M $185.00
thx darkStar, but you did not consider my initial choice (total: $266).

and i think that $199 is too much for a graphic card.
Oh i thought that 900 budget was for the remaining parts ..my mistake.

I chose that vga cause it will really last u for sometime , if u dont want to spend that much then i would recommend taking a look at this url which does a good job in testing a good range of vgas:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2238&p=1
cpu amd athlon 64 x2 4800+
motherboard: asus a8n sli (deluxe or premium)
ram: ddr1 corsair twinx 10244-4400c25 1 gig
dvd: toshiba sd-r5372
graphic msi 7800gt
hdd samsung spinpoint p120s
case gigabyte aurora 3d
cooling gigabyte g-power cooler pro
screen viewsonic vx724
sound creative soundblaster x-fi
power supply seasonic s12-500
mouse logitech mx518
check out the AMD 64 969 pins they are pretty overclockable ya3neh a 3000 can be pushed up to 3800 with good ram. So my advice is on AMD.
But I dont know about the new intel CPUs with dual core and those with 2mb cache... they make the whole price/performance thing more complicated.

Get good rams, it's important for overclocking. Get overclockers ram that will go faster than what you need, if you can.
1 thing thats important for me at least would be the TV in i actually don't have on yet but plan on getting one so I can rip stuff of the tv ;)
1 thing thats important for me at least would be the TV in i actually don't have on yet but plan on getting one so I can rip stuff of the tv ;)
np, most good graphic cards and even cheap graphic cards offer this.