There's a great article on Gizmodo today about how to build a moderately serious gaming PC (that can play Crysis at 40 fps) for under $500. Check it out
here. The gist:
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...an ATI Radeon HD 4870 at $175, $71 Intel Pentium E5200 2.5GHz Wolfdale, $90 MSI Neo3-F LGA 775 motherboard, $21 2GB DDR2-800 RAM (with a rebate, you can go up to 4GB of RAM for $7 more, which I'd recommend), $25 optical drive and $50 320GB hard drive (for $10 more, you can go up to 500GB). Finally, for the case and power supply, a Rosewill TU-155 II 500 Black, which is a good pick since Rosewill makes decent power supplies (I also like Seasonic, which is what I rock in my PC) and it's only $75 for the whole package. After rebates, that's just $479...
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Holy crap, that's not bad at all.
Also, because it fits perfectly with the thread, here's this:
Lifehacker - The First-Timer's Guide to Building a Computer from Scratch - Hardware Installation Probably the best how-to I've come across in my search to grow beyond my Mac roots. There should be a movie about this. Called "Roots".