need help putting together new comp

[sucha]

I'm trying to bounce some ideas about the components needs to build a pretty powerful pc.

There is a budget of about £1400 (without monitor) but can go above if I feel that it would be worthwhile. The biggest reason i want it to be powerful is that I want to be as future proof as possible, and the most demanding thing at the moment it will do is play Pro Evo 5, little Battlefield maybe, and Civ 4.

So if people can post about what they would have in their set-up and why as well to help me and anyone else who reads this to understand the reasoning behind the choices.

So main decisions I guess are (with my selection so far),
1/ CPU (Athlon X2 4200)
2/ Memory (Corsair PC3200 DDR 1-2gb)
3/ Graphics Card (Club 3d 7800GTX 256mb)
4/ HDD (thinking 1 36gb Western Digital 10k for OS and some other 7k for normal usage)
5/ Sound Card (would it make a difference to have one? when most motherboards come with 7.1 audio?)
6/ Speakers (Creative I-Trigue 5600 5.1 Speakers if there is £££)
7/ Extra Cooling/Fans required (some of the cooling things sounds cool, but not sure if they are really needed?)
8/ DVD/DVD-RW drives
9/ PSU (something about 550W)
10/Case
11/ Anything else?
12/ Oh yes... Motherboard

Please offer your opinions on any of these.

 

[Taven]

If all your doing is gaming, then maybe you should downgrade your CPU to save some $$. The X2s are made more for multitasking and they're not a great deal better than the single core 64s when it comes to gaming. Other than that it looks good. For you're motherboard just make sure you get on that supports PCI-express for you gfx card.

 

[Bobo]

If all your doing is gaming, then maybe you should downgrade your CPU to save some $$. The X2s are made more for multitasking and they're not a great deal better than the single core 64s when it comes to gaming.

But he is looking for a "future proof" machine. There is definitely no such thing, but I think an X2 would be a good choice for that.