BenQ, Samsung, and Viewsonic are coming out with 12ms 19" LCD soon if they are not already out. Samsung also claim LCD price will fall about 15-20% in the near feature.
19" LCD runs about 500-600 right now, so you are probably looking at 400-500 for the older model, not sure how the 12ms model will be priced.
Also nVidia is coming out with nForce 4 around Augest/September if you are looking to buy AMD in the far future (late this year/next year). 8 SATA, 3 IDE, 10 USB, Gb ethernet, soundstrom 2.0, raid, and hardware firewall. From what I can gather a 'plain' MB should be cheaper to make since the manufacture doesn't have to buy extra component for onboard sata/raid/sound/ethernet controller.
I would also recommand PCI-E if possible