PMich, I understood he was building the puter from scratch, hence my opinion. If he already has a very good mobo, then your list is the way to go. Thanks for clearing it up.
As for the VIA part, well, another member resurrected a thread about eMachines in another forum and it's being said there that eMachines is not the crap it used to be. Well, the same is true for VIA, perhaps it has improved, but still I am not willing to give it a shot, risking my hard earned money to see if they really did. My previous experiences with them, both personal and on machines I built for clients, are enough to stay clear from VIA. I will build another AMD system when Intel makes chipsets for AMD CPUs.