I finally decided to do some upgrades to my computer… and aside from problems getting windows to install properly, I’m so glad I did. I basically found a great deal on an Asus A8N-E motherboard, Athlon64 3200+ (venice core) and Rosewill 6600GT video card. All told, I spent $315 and ended up saving a good 80-90 bucks. I bought it all used from two people on the forums @ anandtech. Amusingly, none of the stuff even looked remotely used so it worked out pretty well. The only thing I didn’t get in the deal with a heatsink/fan for the CPU. I just ended up going to CompUSA and getting one for $30. Compared to my old AthlonXP @ 2300Mhz, this thing is quite a bit faster and runs Need For Speed Most Wanted at a higher resolution with more details cranked up. The 6600GT is an awesome video card for those that aren’t hardcore gamers and don’t need to run games at ridiculous resolutions. If you’re happy with 1024×768, this card will be great. I don’t game all THAT much so this should do me perfectly fine.
I had a hell of a time getting windows to install properly since my boot drive is a SCSI drive on a SCSI card. Windows seems to want to make your primary master IDE device drive C regardless, which made my windows drive E or F. Completely retarded. Eventually I had to install Windows with only the SCSI drive plugged in and then plug in the two IDE drives. After setting the BIOS boot order properly and doing that, it worked fine. Just setting the SCSI drive to boot first didn’t seem to work. I had to actually have ONLY my SCSI drive connected in order for Windows to install the way I wanted. 
Lame!