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Generally speaking, we have two main combo's:
1) AMD Athlon, with the Via KT333/KT400/KT600 and Nforce2 chipsets/mobos. If you go for budget-Athlon, you take a Via KT600 (or less) mobo; if you go for high-end, you take a Nforce2 mobo.
2) Intel Pentium 4, with the Intel 845/865/875 chipsets/mobos (or, *shudder*, Sis chipsets). If you go for budget P4, you take a 845 mobo and a 533 mhz P4; if you go for high-end. you take a 865 mobo and a 800 mhz P4.
(I did not mention AMD Durons and Intel Celerons, as you may have noticed. They're budget chips, and fit in the list as such.)
For the case: any ATX case will do, provided it has a pentium4/athlon - ready power supply, which means a 300+ Watt PSU with enough oomph at the 12 volt line (>14 ampere will do). Generally speaking, again, any newish case is good enough, especially brand-name cases like Aopen, Coolermaster, Chieftec, etc.
As for jumpers: usually none are needed, or the manual will say so. Today's mobos are typically configured through the bios, with loads of auto-detect options around.
Power connectors: compare the mobo and the PSU cables, and you'll easily figure it out. If in doubt, ask any computer nerd.
M'kay?
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