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i will soon me in the market for a new computer. it will be a desktop, my laptop from '05 is good enough, but my desktop has seen better days. I previously bought computers right off the shelf, nothing special, but i figure this time i'll attempt to build my own.

I already have a tower case that i bought a while back and never used, plus i have some memory chips, not sure what they are, they are back in jersey, all i know is i got them from newegg.com on justins recommendation like 2 years ago... lol.

as for what i except out of my new pc, its not much. I dont play games so thats not an issue. I mainly use it for writing with mircosoft word, and then surfing the internet mainly. I also use aim and windows media player alot.

I want a dvd burner, a good sound card with RCA outputs/inputs (if there is such a thing) lol, and a good video card with at least 2 monitor outputs(vga & dvi is fine) An S video output would also be good to hook up to my TVs. Also, i have 2 former hard drives i'd like to use in addition to a new one. The case i have holds 3. Can that work? lol

so i figure id basically need:
video card
sound card
cd drive/burner
motherboard
power supply
processor
memory
Hard drive

also i want windows xp (NOT VISTA) , am i better off buying the O/S or trying to get it off an old hard drive?

help me figure all this out, i have decent computer knowledge but not when it comes to choosing stuff, just assembling and using it all, lol.