I went with the Tiger Direct deal where there was Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H and AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition combo for $199 or so. The board already included an ATI Radeon 4200 as its chipset, and that seems good enough so I don't have any problems with holding off for a bit on getting a separate graphics card.

Even though I still managed to reuse my old case and peripherals, I still had to swap the old PSU for a 650 watt one, get 4GB DDR RAM and upgrade the HDD. (Couldn't reuse the old Maxtor because its stupid SATA drivers didn't want to work.) Oh, and a $10 CPU cooler, the more expensive one I originally ordered and returned wouldn't fit on the motherboard mount...  Still just a bit under $500 for all that, and in the same state as the warehouse - so there were sales taxes. (I could make the drive to their location so the up-side is that the free ground shipping came next day. I'll let UPS deal with the crap-tastic Chicago traffic.)

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