You guys are great, thanks for all of your advice. I have a laptop for business so I'll be building this for gaming to have a little fun and relieve a little stress!
I've also been putting together a tentative list of components I want (and then the cheaper tradeoff like Pragma recommended). I also bought a case! I purchased the Antec Performance Plus 660AMG. It's a mid tower with Antec's TruePower system, which is really cool. Here's the link to it for those interested:
http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details...p?ProdID=90662
I also found a pretty decent video card for $100. It's the "XFX GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR 8X AGP w/ TV & DVI"
at tigerdirect.com.
I'll be sure to keep you updated as I begin, and I'm sure there'll be some questions along the way too.
Thanks,
Tom