system reccomendations

[tinydancer]

I am new to this forum, but I was hoping to get some advice. I'm a mac user. I love my mac, but I want to build a PC for Gaming. I don't know much about computers though. I want to build a PC that is a great bang for my buck, but I'm leaning a little more to the Bang side...if you follow. My questions to you all are as follows:

1. Shoud I wait a coupe of moths to get a mobo with PCI express, nforce 4 to accoumodate a Nvidia 6800 GT? (by waiting for PCI I will have upgrade potential)

2.) Whats a good LCD display for gaming? (Ive heard samsung 213T)

3.) Any reccomendations? Things to stear away from? Things that I should definetly get?

Help me out.. I want a good machine ASAP, while still taking into consideration the trends in gaming. If I need to wait for PCI express I will. Here's what I've come up with so far:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1MB L2 Cache, 64-bit Processor
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card
Seagate 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 7200RPM SATA II with NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3160827AS, OEM
ANTEC Silver Aluminum Performance 1 Series ATX Mid-Tower Case
Antec 430W Power Supply, Model "TRUE430"
2 x Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 PRO
Monitor ????????
Mobo ????????

Please comment on any of my ideas and make suggestion also.

Thanks

 

[BlueWeasel]

This would be better suited for General Hardware and you'd probably get more replies in that Forum.

I'd send a PM to Anandtech Moderator and ask the Mod to move this post to GH.

Welcome to AT!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Do a search in general hardware. These kinds of things are asked constantly, and probably already have great answers.

I don't think there is a huge benefit to pci express yet, and I don't think it will be a big deal for a couple of generations at least.