Working on a 6 yr old Compaq PC has motivated me to build from scratch and this is what I have come up with. I am not a gamer, BTW.

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D


AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice core


Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160gig SATA HD


xFx GeForce 6600LE video card


pqi Turbo DDR SDRAM 2x512mb


Sunbeam NUUO 550 watt PSU


RaidMax xA case


ASUS DVD/CD burner combo drive


Samsung floppy drive



I am building off this platform so that I have room for growth and improvement in the future, at the moment I just want a reliable and faster machine than what I currently have....a 697mhz Celeron w/320mb ram(Compaq)