[Johnj]

It's not that hard to build a decent system for around a thousand dollars, but you do have to work at it. Buy your big ticket items at Neweeg, but wait for a shipping free weekend. I think there is one a month. Don't buy a high dollar fancy-smancy case. Watch your local outlets like Best Buy, CompUSA, and Micro-Center. They have sales all the time. I bought my DVD/CDRW of $25.00 on sale. I even bought an 80mm heatsink/fan and a duct for the CPU. With a copy of XPsp2 I still spent less than $1200.

AMD64 3200+ (2.2g)----Corsair Value Select Memory 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200----ABIT "NF8" NVIDIA nForce3 250GB Chipset Motherboard-----XFX GeForce 6800GT 256mbDDR3 AGP8X

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