A few weeks ago I go the go ahead from my wife to build myself a new computer. I have been rocking a P4 at home for quite some time…so long in fact that I just started using my work laptop as my home computer. It wasn’t horrible but definitely time to upgrade. I knew I wanted to keep the cost down even though I think I could have gotten my wife to agree to nearly any reasonable price and I knew I wanted it to be FAST!! 
 That is a relative term but the items I did purchase SEEM very very fast to me. It would blow my mind if I were to get all the high end stuff .
Case:Â Â Â Â Ultra X-Blaster ATX Black Mid-Tower Case
Power Supply:Â Â Â Â Ultra LSP550 550-Watt Power Supply
Memory:Â Â Â Â Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400
Processor:Â Â Â Â AMD Phenom 9500 Processor
Motherboard:Â Â Â Â Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard
Hard Drive:Â Â Â Â Seagate 500GB Serial ATA
Video Card:Â Â Â Â XFX GeForce 7600 GT (already owned)
Operating System:Â Â Â Â Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit (already owned)
Total:Â $374.98 + Tax/Shipping
I thought that price was pretty darn good. By the way, I don’t have all 5.9’s on Vista’s experience rating, I only have 5.9’s on everything except graphics. I have 5.5 there but will hopefully be able to get a 9800GT Video Card here soon which will put me up to 5.9’s  The operating system was free because I let Microsoft spy on my Windows XP machine for a few months. In return, they gave me a copy of Vista Ultimate 32/64 Bit.
#1 by Ace Frye on December 19th, 2008
Nice, very nice. How much RAM do you have in the box?
What are you going to do with the old box?
I’m running at a 5.5 Vista experience level.
#2 by Ace Frye on December 19th, 2008
My bad, ha, I’m seeing now that says 4096MB. Not bad dude.