Well I hae plenty of PC experience (A+, Network+, HP, TOshiba & compaq certified) so building one is no issue.
I like the ABit boards myself. They haven't been nearly in the forefront as they had in the past. The MSI board has a better chipset than the ABIT & Asus boards I looked at. It should also be upgradable to the new HyperThreading technology from Intel. So that's why I chose MSI. It does have 8x AGP support already.
The 2.4B seems like a good deal. Dunno. I haven't really been in the P4 game much. I'm more of a dual P3 and overclock 'em person.
Ever heard of GEiL memory? Seems like its decent stuff. The corsair is just too pricey. I was looking at the GEiL PC-3200 512MB DDR.