I actually found a place that would put some or most of a custom-built comp together for free. Mwave assembles and tests barebone systems of your choice (with a lot of options).
I'm wondering what type of company mwave.com is, if they're reliable or not. I'd also like to run this setup through you guys to be guaranteed of compatibility. Lastly, I have heard good things about Antec, do you think that PSU with this case would be sufficient for my needs? I'm NOT planning to overclock, I would be adding only one 80GB HD, another stick of 512 DDR ram, and probably a basic DVD-rom drive.
If I went this route, I would only get to install a few of my components myself, but I would have the bonus of being at least fairly sure this thing would be built decent and would take very little ($20 tops) hit on cash compared to newegg or directron. Thanks again
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Barebones.hmx?
case - ANTEC SLK3800B (BLACK) SUPER MID TOWER W/SMARTPOWER 2.0 400W POWER SUPPLY & FRONT USB CONNECTOR
mobo - ABIT UL8 ULI M1689 CHIPSET SERIAL ATA150 ATX FORM FACTOR 1xAGP(8X)/5xPCI/4xDDR W/SATA RAID,LAN,USB 2.0 & AUDIO (CPU TYPE:AMD ATHLON 64 - SOCKET 939)
cpu - AMD ATHLON 64 3200+ (ADA3200BPBOX) W/512KB CACHE 90NM (VENICE) 64-BIT SOCKET 939 RETAIL BOXED W/COOLING FAN (3 YEARS WARRANTY)
memory - KINGSTON KVR400X64C3A/512 512MB PC3200 400MHZ CL3 (3-3-3) DDR DIMM
fd - MITUSMI 1.44 FLOPPY (Bare drive-black color)
cd/dvd - LITE ON 52X/32X/52X BLACK EIDE INTERNAL CDRW BURN PROOF w/SW (White box) #SOHR5239S