New System - HELP PLZ

[excessum]

After about 4 years of being cheap and lazy, I finally decided to go ahead and prepare a new system for myself. I'm looking into a dual processor system which can later be upgraded to a dual DUAL CORE processor system. Not looking for anything high priced or super fancy, I don't plan on OCing any of the processors either. Just keeping it simple but I am looking for quality, reliance, and something that stays cool. As you can see I have been out of the loop for several years, just looking for some positive input and support on what I should look into purchasing.

For a CPU I have been looking at the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Newcastle 1600MHz HT Socket 754 Processor, should I go for the 939 socket instead? What would be a solid and worthy motherboard for this processor or the 939 socket? I did some research on tomshardware.com but nothing caught my attention yet. I was also debating between these two computer cases:

GIGABYTE 3D AURORA GZ-FSCA1-ATB Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum/Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Also if I could get some input on some solid memory. Looking to buy 1GB+

Thanks for all your help

 

[Tigerbiten]

If your going dual CPU then you must go for an Opteron 2xx CPU.
Not cheap.

A dual 940 pin socket MoBo.
Not cheap.

You will also need registered memory.
4 sticks if your going to be running dual channel to both CPU's
Also not cheap.

Most MoBo of this type are EATX 12"x13" so make sure the case you want will take this size of MoBo.

But apart from that your fine so far.......

Unless you need that type of power then your a lot better just sticking to a single dual core CPU as this will be around $500-600 at the cheapest for a full system.
A dual dual your looking at $800+ for just the CPU's.
And a cheap system is going to be around $2,000-2,500.

Luck..........