I would replace the mobo with an ASUS A7N8X, based on the Nforce2 chipset - significantly more powerful.
Problem is you wont be able to set up a RAID on the IDE channels, you would need to aqueire SATA hard drives (limit of two since there are only two SATA ports) which are expensive. But other than that it outperforms the KT400 chipset in every way.
Put 1Gb of pc2700 RAM into it. For heavy video work 512Mb is probably adequate, but RAM is cheap.
Up till now Ive always recommended Geforce cards over Radeons, but the performance has always been close. GeforceFX changes that though, that card is overclocked out the box. Worrying. So stick with the Radeon.
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