what they said is good
i'd def get a cd-rw drive at least tho... dvd-rw's are still sorting out format standards...
and a 8mb buffer is desireable
1000 is a little low tho for a system AND a 9700 card... you could build the system with a raedon 9000 for that price...
IF you can try and get a Palomino core Athlon.... and IF you can, get a Soyo Dragon KT400 board, its better than the Asus, of course it costs more
run some nice memory too, the Asus will do DDR333 (PC2700), but the Dragon will do DDR400 (PC3200), the dragon will be a good bit faster
good luck
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i work at bestbuy, if you just wanna BUY a good system for a good price... look at the VPR Matrix brand... they've got a 2.8ghz P4 setup for $1100 with a DVD-RW, the model is the 5110