Worth it if you wait another month or so for the price on DX10 cards to go down, otherwise right now...no.  Cash is precious. 

Yeah, deffinately go for it if you're looking at a budget sound card.  The beauty with sound cards is you dont have to spend $150 dollars to get a good one anymore, you can drop less and get great quality.  For the price you will get some awesome crisp sounds from that card, what kind of speakers do you have?

Depends on a.) your experience and b.)how careful and clean you want the wires to look.

Also...if you put together a pc with older parts it will take less time because youll tend to be less careful with the components.  :P

Ehhh, i would drop more cash for a case but it doesnt seem worth it.  I say this because all the expensive cases I look at have bad reviews...like they're flimsy or dont have great airflow.   I think im going to go with this budget case...its got decent reviews:

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Instead of coming up with a new OS every 2 years (more like 5-10 years) Microsilly should concentrate on Vista and improving it.Gimli64