Just for fun, here's a computer Mantra put together for me. I'll be getting everything on tuesday and getting her running. This has little relevance to the thread, really, but I'm posting it anyway.
New computer:
1 x LIAN LI PC-65B Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811112040
4 x HIPER HFF-1G08N Green LED 80mm Transparent Case Fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835224015
1 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136218
1 x G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231122
1 x SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151154
1 x SAPPHIRE 100242L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102747
1 x GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128337
1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115037
1 x CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 Power Supply 90 - 264 V UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139003
All of that came out to be $850.84, plus $38.35 S&H. $889.19 total.
Here's what I'm currently using:
Dell Dimension 2400, self-upgraded a bit
Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz processor
1 GB RAM (I think it came with 256 MB)
NVidia Geforce FX5500 256 MB (The computer came with onboard video, which was complete rubbish. The card in it right now isn't a ton better, but it was the best I could get since my computer only has PCI slots.)
80 GB HDD (Came with a 40 GB HDD)
I'm not going to know what to do with myself with this new computer. It's infinitely better than my current one, and the price was very nice. I was expecting to have to spend a lot more on a good gaming PC, but Mantra did well picking all of this stuff out. Obviously it's not quite on the same level as what you're looking for, Lenny, but it's going to do me just fine. I'm excited as hell for it.