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For a gaming system its a coin toss between and amd processor or intel. Unless you want to spend the jack on the new athlon 64. For a gaming system you want a good fast and stable system. Alot of guys around here like the nforce chipsets but the are always complaining of data curruption which if you are doing othings with the system curruption is not good.
If you plan on doing vid and photo work i would go the intel route, granted a mac is really the best for photos and vid imo.
The amd 3200 xp processor and a good kt880 mb will set you back about 200.00 bucks if you shop carefully. I have had real good results with the soyo dragon kt880 version2 mb and the xp3200. But i also do alot of overclocking to push the system to the max(just for fun)
The gfcard is good but to the best of my knowledge it is not dx9 ready. Personally i would go ati because you can get a 9800se card with 256 meg of vidmemory and it is dx9 ready for 140.00 at newegg.com.
Memory go with namebrand pc3200 ddr. Geil, coarsair, etc. I know newegg had a sale on the geil dual channel ddr 3200 1 gig for 100.00. Its good basic memory and if the mb you do get does support dual channel memory it will work with no problems.
Alot of the new mb/cpus they are bringing out is great but keep in mind that if the software you are using doesnt need that kind of power its real easy to go overkill and broke updating a system
Lastly you didnt say what mother board you have now. you might be abol to update the bios and just get another processor and memory and be done.
I hope i helped
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