[andrewas]

Right then. No argument from me RE the mobo, and apparently some people have been having trouble with the ASUS A7N8X-C, but I havent used one myself. Still, the ABIT is good.

For CPU, I would be tempted to go higher than the 2500XP. Looking through your stats, the mobo has a 400Mhz FSB, whereas the CPU only supports 333Mhz. Your going to be losing performance there.

RAM is nice. Ramcooler is a waste though, at least on the system RAM. On the graphics card it can be worth it, but system RAM dosent run that hot even under a moderate overclock.

HDD cooler is also controversial, but it wont do any harm. You might want to experiement with removing it to see what it does to the sound. Unless your case is highly underventilated, your HDDs shouldn't be getting dangerously hot.

HDD - you should have SATA ports on that mobo, so you have the option of setting up a RAID system. That can improve your boot up and load times signficantly, although its expensive. It also helps when your system starts paging to RAM, since the HDD becomes a processing bottleneck when that happens. But with 1Gb that should be rare.

Graphics card - ATI is all very well, but I've heard far less stability probles with the Geforce line. They may not be quite the equal in pure power, but I'll trade a couple FPS for fewer CTDs anyday.