Upgrading my pc, how do these parts look?

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Ok my pc is in some need of upgrading, but there are some main parts that i want to keep. I have an athlon 64 3000, gigabyte uli mobo w/agp s939. 2x512mb ddr ram, seagate 160 GB PATA, asus 6600 agp, and a raidmax 380watt psu. Basically i want to upgrade my mobo to a new one that has pci-E, and i want a new videocard that is pci-E isntead of agp. My birthday ios saturday so imma probly get like around $150 from my parents and family and i want to spend like $150 -$200 max, from my own money, so that makes $350 total max, but preferably $300. Here's what i was thinking.

Since i do want to keep my cpu for now i want to get a socket 939 motherboard, and sine my mobo now is kinda low end I wanted to get high end, so this DFI Lanparty attracted me: DFI Lanparty s939

That is $100 right there with tax and shipping.

For videocard i liked this eVGA 7600gt, sincemy local computer store has it on sale for $135 and i won't have to pay shipping: eVGA 7600gt

So that is around $150 with tax, and that brings the total to $250.

With this new stuff imma need a PSU, and this one seems decent, and it is also on sale at my computer store lol. Here's the newegg link to it: Cooler Master Extreme 430watt

Its only $27 at my store, so that is liek $30 with tax, and that brings the total to $280

So that's all i got so far, there's still like $70 left, so is there anything you guys think i should add or change, I would really aprreciate your comments and reccomendations. Thanx.
 
Since i already have pretty good s939 cpu, and ddr 400 ram, I dont want to go AM2 just for the ddr2. So i was thinking of getting the lanparty, and the 7600gt, and then maybe later when vista comes out I can get a dual core opteron when they are cheaper or an x2. What do you guys think?
 
The reviews for that psu didn't look so good, spend a little more on a psu, get an antec or something. Like the post above says, spend a little more on a video card, maybe a 7900 or something.
 
Yea that can play all the recent games on good settings, and should hold you until DX10 cards come out.
 
alrite well i was leaning toward the 7600gt, so i still gotta think about that 7900gs, but how about the mobo? Do you guys think it is a good one and i should stick with it? I mean it is a Lanparty.
 
I've been hearinf stuff that vista will probaly come out around january and that you are goign to need like a DX10 card to use it and like a lot of ram, and a dual core cpu. so this gets me thinking, everyone is saying to get a conroe. So if i want to get vista should i just wait for DX10 cards or should i just stick with this upgrade? now i dont know because i dont want to buy new stuff and then like a couple months later have it outdated.
 
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