Nforce4 out of budget - What to upgrade to?

[geek]

Hi

I am planning to upgrade my system and really require some expert help. I hope you will guide me.

I am a casual gamer, an avid music listner and a movie buff. I am also a performance freak.

I have a maximum budget of Rs. 30000 for the following components.

CPU
Mobo
RAM
AGP card
HDD
Cabinet
FDD

I have been delaying my upgradation waiting for the NForce4 based boards. But now that the boards are finally out they are costing a bomb. The ASUS board costs Rs. 18000. What should i do now? Please suggest a good configuration within my budget that is reasonably future proof for the next 3 yrs or so. I am open both to Intel as well as AMD. In case I go in for AMD should it be socket 939 or 754?

Thanx for the advise

 

[wolfvroger]

By ur budget i wld suggest u go for 754 scoket.
CPU-Athlon64 2800+ - 8500
Mobo-MSI k8n neo - 8k to 8.5k (not sure)
HDD- Seagate 80gb sata-3.5k
RAM-Hynix 512MB-ddr400 - 4.3k
AGP- GF 5200 128MB-5k
FDD- Sony 1.44' mb -450
Cabinet-400 watts- 1500
Total-31950~32k
Don't even think of Intel based system coz they come nowhere near to AMD64 based system!!!
AMD RULES!!

 

[TheGuru]

Intel Prescott 3GHz (1 MB L2) ~ 9K
Asus P4P800 E-Deluxe (i865PE) ~ 9K
512 MB DDR400 RAM ~ 4.5K
Samsung 80GB S-ATA (8MB cache) ~ 3.8K
GeForce 6200 AGP ~ 5K
FDD+Good cabinet (more importantly, good SMPS) ~ 2K

~33K

6200 is not yet available I think.