What's your budget? And what do you use your computer for? Like 99% AH or do you do some other stuff (or would like to)?
Personally, I don't like barebones kits. I confess that I see barebone kits advertised and I think "that's a good deal." I then check it out and quick move on. A lot of the time in barebones kits you find older/entry level parts. Yes, the stuff you listed above will run AH very well. But, PSU's that come in kits are very cheap and I'm one to never gamble on cheap PSU's. You can generally price out something relatively in the same ballpark as barebones kits, but being able to pick better parts.
But let us know your budget and we can go from there.
I'm trying to keep the cost of the parts I need below 500. Lately most of what I use this for is AH, everything else I do does not require much power, email, light Word processing, light bookeeping some web browsing and light web design running XP home and do not plan on switching to Vista.
Currently the items I plan on salvaging from the old system:
C: Drive 20 GB IDE - has Operating system and some program on it (691 MB Free)
D: Drive 120 GB IDE - has all programs and data (80 GB Free)
I really don't want to have to reload windows and lose all my info and some programs. From what I'm reading though I may not have an option there.
I have to agree with you about the BB kits, though I was looking for a easy way out forgetting the facts that you pointed out. I was concerned about not being able to run dual channel memory, having just heard about it the day before (I really need to refresh my knowledge) I called Tigerdirect and asked when researching the first system, the person there said it would run dual channel in that configuration. I had a feeling that was a incorrect statement cause I was told memory has to be identical.
I like AMD over Intel because the last system I built Intel was much more expensive for a similar system, it seems that is no longer the case.
Anyway I read your post of the components you sugested and made some alterations and this is what I'm thinking of now along with your list:
This Motherboard along with the Intel E8400 the combo deal saves me 15.00 which doesn't hurt
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337The only problem with that board is it only has 1 IDE header so I'm researching that a bit more.
I havn't had time to check the rest of the system, I'll do that later today.
So I think I may have CPU Motherboard and memory picked, now I need case PSU and Video solutions.