Need Suggestions for my Machine

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Okay, I'm going to be pretty specific here. I'm putting this system together to play World of Warcraft with. I don't have very much money right now and my general goal is to buy only a few necessary pieces up front and buy the rest later.

I have about a 500 dollar budget. Here is what I all ready own.

ATI 128 mb Radeon 9800 graphics card
Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Speakers/Ect
Powersupply

and this is what I'm thinking about buying.

Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Orleans 2.4GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - Retail

Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

RAM: CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory - Retail x1 (I did want to buy 2 to start but I may not be able to afford two)

OS: Windows XP Home

what else may I need, and do you have any suggestion for better/cheaper parts? Are there any comptiability issues?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Looks good, but you'll be needing a good video card, the 9800 ain't gonna do it.

Whats your budget?
 
my budget is about 500-600 for all of those pieces right there. But won't that videocard be good enough untill I can replace it?
 
I just upgraded a friends computer to play simiar games..

This is what i got him for 450 dollars and utilizing the same hard drive, power supply and drives he had. as well as case.

x850XT
AMD3200+
Abit motherboard.
1GB ram.

The idea is that the 3200 will OC easy.

for your budget you could get all the same, and a 3700+ or a dualcore if you wanted (not needed really)
 
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