ok, here's my revised parts list:
CASE:
ASPIRE X-Navigator ATXA9NW-AL/500 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply - Retail
PSU:
Rosewill RP500 ATX 500W Power Supply - Retail
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX - Retail
MOBO:
ASUS A8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
RAM:
G.SKILL 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model F1-3200PHU1-1GBNS - Retail
VIDEO CARD:
eVGA 256-P2-N567 Geforce 7900GT KO Superclocked 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
OPTICAL DRIVE:
SONY Black IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1615/B2s - OEM
HARD DRIVE:
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JBRTL 250GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - Retail
SOUND CARD:
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
OS:
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/Update Rollup Release 2 OEM 1 Pack - OEM
MONITOR:
BenQ FP202W Black 20.1" DVI 8ms Widescreen LCD Monitor - Retail
total cost= $1568.90
you can see i got rid of the floppy (...do i really need a floppy?!?!), and the keyboard and mouse, which shouldnt've been there anyway.....
any other ajustments i might want to make?