Ok, don't go nuts now I need some realistic and down to earth input here.

I'm moving to CO next month and I'm going to be staying with my company as a telecommuting employee. Instead of them giving me the computer I use at work to take with me, they're going to upgrade my personal computer and I get to keep the upgrades.

I currently run a KT- 7A Abit MB with 768MB of PC133 Crucial RAM and a 1.2GHZ Thunderbird processor. Finally, I have a Radeon All-in-wonder 7500 with TV/S-Video out. Oh, XP Pro as well.

These are the parts I'd like to upgrade. What motherboards are good now? I want to go with a DDR setup and something around 2.5GHZ. I'd also like a reliable 128MB (+/-) video card that won't conflict with XP like a lot of the Nvidia cards do.

Remember that I can't drop this HUGE list of hardware on them. It needs to be cost effective and realistic.

Thoughts?

Thanks!