Very soon. Grand total of just over $1300 in all, plus shipping and such. Here are the parts:

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe ($236)
CPU: Athlon 64 3500+ ($270)
RAM: 2 sticks Crucial DDR PC3200 512MB RAM ($81 each, 1 GB $162 total)
Vid. Card: Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB PCI-Express ($199)
HDD: Western Digital 120 GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA ($104)
Case: Chiefmax beige w/ silver trim ($22, very boring case)
Power supply: Antec True480 ($82)
CD-ROM: BenQ 16x DVD-ROM (48x CD-ROM) ($22)
CD-RW: Aopen DVD±RW 16x ($63)
Floppy: Taken from old computer, $0
Case fan: Ultra-quiet, $5 each, $10 total
CPU fan/heatsink: Ultra-quiet, $50
Windows XP: $85

It'll dual-boot XP and Mandrake. Anything you people see wrong with my list? Suggestions?

Spend that $1300 on a trip to Nevada and a prostitute.

Yeh why in the hell would anyone have a PCI graphics card?? with AGP at x8 i thought they had caused all PCI graphics card to become extinct, surely the difference in power is too much to let slip on an otherwise impressive system?

Saying that this is power on a budget, i went silly with my laptop last year so its still got some kick being able to play doom 3 and all.

Originally posted by Lokideviluk
Yeh why in the hell would anyone have a PCI graphics card?? with AGP at x8 i thought they had caused all PCI graphics card to become extinct, surely the difference in power is too much to let slip on an otherwise impressive system?
Read it again, buddy. PCI-Express. Faster than AGP 8x by far, and set to replace it as motherboard vendors adopt it.
Originally posted by LionelHutz
Spend that $1300 on a trip to Nevada and a prostitute.
Too late, I ordered the parts already!

My apologies didnt read it properlly, and for anyone whom like me hadnt heard about this, the information can be found here -

http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/Motherboard/PCI_Express.shtml

you should have gotten 2 hard drives....that was one thing i made sure to do when i built mine over the summer....running xp and fedora 3 now....i learned my lesson on my laptop, xp had a habit of crashing then i'd have to format the drive....:rolleyes: ...and thats why i only use windows to play games and photoshop because emulation in wine is a lil laggy for photoshop7...lol...wine doesnt support CS

Yeh see im just sad and dual boot two versions of win xp, one english and one japanese on a partitioned drive for the same reason, had to format when things turned ugly.

Annoyingly you always have the driver cds right up untill the moment you format, then they are gone forever.

why do you run the jap version of XP?
cant you just install foreign language support on english?

Yeh i can but its specifically to help me learn Japanese, and i dont mean an English XP with all the jap bits turned on, i mean a literal Japanese Windows XP, with everything in Japanese :)

It forces me too look up shit to find out how to do it, configuration was evil lol

ah i see....i'm sure it was a bitch installing and configuring.
:comphit:
do you use all your english software or do you get japanese software as well?

English for the moment since the Jap software is quite expensive, the xp was off ebay and cheap at the time.