lol...i here ya...best computer i ever had was a 200 mhz, and i paid 30 bux for it...then i built another one, but a p3 450, and its is awesome...after all the upgrades i have done to it, i must have put 300 into it...320 mb ram, 32 mb ddr elsa gladiac vid card(GF2 gts) few miscellaneous cards here and there....not a bad system...now i am in the works for a 1.33 athlon, with an 80 gb 7200 RPM hdd, the 32 mb elsa fladiac(outta the old 450, i replaced it with a 16 mb tnt2 vanta) 512 mb ddr ram, and an ECS K7S5A REV 1.05 mobo i bought herer on Timo for 32 shipped...so far, i have put 125 bux into it, after i account for the case i bought from
www.koolcases.com\newminnion.html great case, excellent heat transfer...also, i just dropped in a 48x12x48 burner i got from Timo for 42 bux, and a samsung model 616 16x dvd rom