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That's what I just did. I went with the K8NSC 939 nForce3 Socket 939 Mobbo, with the Athlon 64 3200(2.00 GHz) processor. I just transferred my CDRW, DVD Rom drives, and floppy to the new case I picked up at Comp USA. All in all, it was about one hour of build time, and an additional hour to tweak the installation of XP to my liking. Oh yeah, I also went with a SATA HD. All totaled, 500 bucks. And I get to keep all the documentation, driver Cd's, and other assorted stuff they never send you with those over priced rip off boxes the big companies send you.

This summer, when my other system died, I bought the barebones, added what I 'needed'. Got the P4, 3.06Ghz, 1 Gig ram, 120 gig HD, DVD-R for around $600. I already had .5 Gig ram I had recently purchased; that stick worked in new system, so I have 1.5 Gig ram. Bought XP as OEM locally. Had recently bought mouse and keyboard, so I didn't buy them again. All in all, I now have a pretty fast system, added a second DVD-R, all for around $800.