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Building a Computer, Please Review

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Hi, I've been an avid gamer for many years, but I've never really been very technologically 'proficient'. My old system finally took a dive about a month ago (an old Compaq, p4 2.56Ghz, 1g of something RAM, Radeon 9800XT. I think the card died on me thanks to overheating) and seeing as its really quite old, and how I'd like to be able to play games on high again for atleast a little while, I decided to go about and build my own machine.

My budget is about $2,100. I don't need a keyboard, mouse, power supply, Windows XP, or a monitor. My ideas are as follows:

ASUS A8N5X Mobo
AMD 64 X2 4400+ CPU
2 x 1G sticks of OCZ Platnum DDR400 Memory
Radeon X1900XTX Video Card
Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music Sound Card
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250Gb SATA 3g HDD
An ASUS DVD drive
A Lite-ON DVDRW

I'd like to upgrade the motherboard for sure. And I'm really not sure what case to get, but I'd certainly like space. I'd also to keep to a single video card.

I understand this an overclocking enthusiast place, and the more I read, the more I find it intriguing. Is an Opteron really that good of an option? I'd like to get every inch of performance out of my machine that is possible for games. I should note that I really don't have any partiality toward dual cores or AMD. Thanks for reading this and thanks for any advice.

Edit: I should also note that I had my first experience ordering computer parts online from NewEgg and was most impressed with the quality and fast shipping. If possible, I'd like to buy from them again.
 
About the PSU

When buying a case do not worry about the PSU, always buy a higher quality. A bad PSU can shorten the life span of you components drastically, a bad PSU is like you system smoking cigs if it had lungs. As for which one just visit the PSU section of this forum they point you in the right direction. A good PSU is often over looked.
 
if you're over your budget or you just don't want to spend an extra 100$ dump the soundcard, but i would keep some money left over so you can buy a top of the line dx10 card when it comes out.
 
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