You need a Case, a Power supply, preferably 300 Watts, and a Monitor, unless ypou're using your current one which might not be compatible, you need an OS, either Linux or Win XP since the M$ SOB's have decided to discontinue ME and 2k, unless you buy it from PCMall.com but beware, you can't return it!
I'd avoid the CD-Rw or a DVD-ROM and Just get a DVD-RW/CD-R/RW combo drive whihc is a god $500 but worth the price, if you're a video nut make sure to hvae a Flat CRT monirtor, LCXD's aren't good and degrade quickly and "older" Rounded CRT's are bad as well, I reccomened NEC monitors personally.
If you get an Ethernet card, make sure it's a good one for your Cable/DSL modem, if you don't have a firewall, BUY ONE ASAP, I re4ccomend ZoneAlarm Pro with the "PestPatrol" bundle for removing spyware, also, be sure to have at LEAST an 80 Gig HDD, you might want two of them if you're going for a higher price and DV editing.
Finally get a Metal Case or a Metal/Plastic Case, the ones I reccomend are the "Dragon" Ful-Tower Cases which are Metal/Plastic, but require good coling so have an open space for it.
Finaly you need a MoBo, AMD chips run on AMD boards and Asus is another good bet, check out what you can find, make sure you get a CPU Tempurature monitor (the intel P4 comes with one) for an AMD I'd use SiSoft's Sandra.
Hope this helps somewhat.
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