Looking for Ideas (Rigg Upgrade)

[CrisisVT]

Alright, so I’m working with a budget of 1,100 and maybe a hundred more or so in the coming weeks. I’m doing a system overhaul which is right now:
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, XP 2500+, 512Mb TwinX ULL PC3200, ATi 9700 Pro 128Mb, and an Audigy 2 ZS.

I had originally planned to get an X2 processor between a 4200 and 4400 but that’s straining my budget a bit too much. As it stands this is my purchase plan:
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, AMD 64 4000+, 1Gb OCZ Gold Edition PC3200 (2-3-3-6), and a Leadtek Winfast PX7800GT Extreme 256MB

After that I have about 200 on hand for other parts, which I was thinking of sinking into a hard drive and tuner card for the old machine, to use as a HTPC in my living room.

So I’m looking for any part recommendations or configuration changes from the [H] crowd. Oh and I’ve been in IT for over six years, so I’m quiet familiar with tuning, parts, overclocking, etc.. I mainly use my desktop for hosting an FTP server, general computer usage, DVD de/encoding, and of course gaming.

 

[kumquat]

Cheaper MB, cheaper RAM, dual core CPU.

Biostar TForce 939 $80
X2 3800+ $322
7800GT $300
2GB RAM $180

Total $882.

Questions?

 

[CrisisVT]

Thanks for the suggestion Kumguat.
I guess more information would be helpful. I'm using an ATA controller card to host some extra hard drives and I plan to migrate that along with the Audigy, and hard drives from the current system. As such this necessitates access to two PCI slots.

The full specs for the desktop are:
2x 80Gb IBM DeskStar 120GXP
1x 80Gb WesternDigital 800JB
1x 100Gb WesternDigital 1000GB
1x 120Gb WesternDigital 1200JB
1x 200Gb HitachiGST DeskStar 180GXP

1x Sony DRU-510A DVD+/-RW

Also, I'm not looking to save money, I'm just looking for the best configuration, since my primary focus is improving my desktop. As far as going for an X2 3800+, the benchmarks I saw made that processor look like a poor average use and gaming CPU. As a result I’ve been working off the premise that the AMD 64 4000 is my baseline for performance.

 

[Stugots]

The A64 4000 is $~400, isnt that the same as a A64 X2 4200?

nevermind...i just saw that the 4000 is like $330.