Thanks for all the tips.  I went down to memory express today and to be honest I've never recieved better service anywhere. 
 
  I ended up getting the antec sonata 3 case with the 500watt power supply, gigabyte p35-ds4 mb, 2x1gb (matched set) of patriot ddr2 800 ram, intel core2 quad q6600, western digital 160 gb sata hdd and the evga 9600gt ko edition. 
 
 I was really impressed, they put the processor and ram onto the mb for me and tested it before I took it home.  Got it home, put it together and I've got vista ultimate loading as I peck away on the laptop!!   
 
  This'll be a big change from my athlon 64 3200+ with an AGP ati x800!! 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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