Good System Specs?

[kruseman]

Hey guys, I'm gonna be building myself a computer in the next year. Here is what the specs will be.

AMD Athlon 1.2 $100
Would this motherboard be good? http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10268653&loc=241 $70

SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer or SoundBlaster Live Mp3? would the x-gamer still have good sound for when i listen to mp3s? would the live mp3 have good sound for games? $100
40 GB HD got already
HP 9510I 12x Burner got already
50x cd-rom or something around that $40
256 mb ram. PNY maybe? $50
19" monitor - would this be good from lg electronics? http://www.us.buy.com/retail/computers/product.asp?loc=380&sku=10220323 $200

video card - elsa gladiac 920 w/tv out. $400
Speakers - cambridge fps2000 $125

What kind of power supply and cooling would i need for this?

It is about $1100 altogether. Am I paying too much for these parts. Or is this a good price. Also, if you guys want to give me suggestions feel free. I could use yours guy's help.
Thank you guys

[joerg]

Sounds good except the motherboard is a little cheap i would recomend an Asus or epox mainboard with ddr. The video card sounds rather expensive for that much i would go with the Guillemot Hercules 3D Prophet III Geforce3 64MB it can be found at www.newegg.com (http://www.newegg.com) for $420. Also the i would recomend the X-Gamer over the Mp3 but if you have a few extra bucks go for the Game Theater Xp also from Guillemot Hercules. Other than that have fun building it.

[Barney]

The motherboard is fine. GygaByte makes some of the best mainboards in the world. Just don't expect great overclocking with it. Oh, and the Elsa Gladiac 920 is a GeForce 3, btw. They're also one of the best graphics board producers (I rate them much higher than Guillemot/Hercules).

[This message has been edited by Barney (edited 07-31-2001).]