Originally Posted by Ochdx

If you are looking for to build a decent P4 based PC, and still need AGP capability as opposed to PCI-E, I would say go with an Asus P4P800 (you can also go with P4P800S, which is a single channel ddr only, doesnt have firewire, but it's much cheaper than P4P800).

I'd start off with that motherboard, 1 gig of DDR, and a 3.2 P4. For a video card I'd get ATI 9800. The whole thing should run you around $500, and then you can start adding all the nifty features, such as top of the line sound card, $600 graphic card, etc.