if they are. The RAM (what brand and specs, BTW?) may be fine on another machine. In [link|http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1303&p=3|Anandtech's review of this board] they recommend Corsair or Muskin memory. Newegg.com has a 512 MB stick of PC133 Corsair CL-2.5 memory for $67. I've been happy with my Soyo K7V Dragon+ using Crucial memory. Newegg's cheapest Soyo board is $78. 512 MB of Crucial DDR for it would be $128.

If you don't have money to burn, *don't* buy anything. Just use what you've got but tweak it until it's reliable (even if you have to run it slightly slowly). Things will always be faster and cheaper in the future. :-)

You shouldn't need more than 300 W for your system. 500 W is overkill unless you've got lots of PCI cards (e.g. SCSI cards) and lots of hard drives.

According to [link|http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/24309.pdf|this], your 2000+ dissipates a maximum power of 70 W (maximum chip temperature of 90 C). It draws a maximum of 40 A at 1.75 V (35.7 A typical). [link|http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26003.pdf|This] AMD paper gives you pointers on how to calculate how big a PS you need. 300 W should be plenty if it's an ATX12V supply.

HTH.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who thinks his 1.2 GHz Athlon home system is plenty fast enough right now...)