last year i bought and built my pc for 1700 bucks aussie.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice (2186Mhz and counting)
Geil 2048MB(4x512) PC3200 Dual channel ram
2x Seagate SATA 160GB 8MB HDD's
Gigabyte 6600 turbo forced Silent pipe
480w antec blue psu
I am a computer technitian but really its not that hard if u have half a clue at what ur doing.
btw , yes i know i need a new video card.
