About a year ago I built my rig for about $1500. Its similar, but I bought a thermaltake tsunami dream case for looks. Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 MB, socket939 with nividia nForce4-4X chipset, Athlon 64 3700 processor, 2 gigs of corsair ram, thermaltake butterfly 480 watt power supply, dual 160 gig 3700 rpm seagate barracuda hard drives, sony DVD burner, ATI 256 mgb graphics card, Creative SB Audigy ZS soundcard, floppy drive, thermaltake hardcano12 temp & fan controller, & case, chipset, & processor fans.
I've really dogged the crap outta this rig, running the processor at 100% for hours on end, yet it still continues to jam.........