a VERY GOOD Power Supply. As Grygus has said elsewhere, buy a good power supply, you'll never regret it. Buy a cheapy... you will againa and again and maybe more after a fry or two.

Personally, I lke the KT333A or KT400 Chipsets for mother boards... that then precludes AMD Processors... and ofhtose that make em, I like Gigabyte Best right now, Solid, well designed very generous with the ports... But hey, each to his own.

I my self, for video cards... as of yet, See no real reason to move away from nVidia. RIGHT NOW is the key. I believe the more and more ATI starts to realize the OSS way of driver development... ATI cards *WILL* in fact be the operative machines for Linux or any other OS. The ATI hardware appears to have a lot MORE headroom. But Alot of nVidia support is out there for now.

BTW, *Z* currently runs on an XP1900+ and a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (KT333 Chipset) Quiet smooth well apportioned. Nice.