Athlon x2 6000
2x1gb corsair PC8500
HD - I have about 2 terabytes of HD space right now across 3 HD's including the new samsung 1tb, this bitch is
fastMobo - Asus M2r32-MVP, cross-fire capable (I had intended to crossfire 2900's but decided not to in favor of an upgrade 1-2 years down the line for a quad core crossfire system)
Sound card - Asus Xonar d2; fuck creative and their shitty xi-fi, gave me so much trouble
Video card - ATI radeon 2900 XT
Moniter - Samsung Syncmaster 245T - that's 24" widescreen, I run UT3 at 1900x1200 at a constant 60fps on warfare necris with 31 bots (Its fps cap is 60)
OS - XP, of course!
Case - Antec 900 I think it was. I'd have to check. It's one of the more popular cases and was my second choice. It runs very quietly. I can't hear my CPU or my GPU or any of the fans in the case.
PSU - OCZ 600watt Xtremegamer or something, it's glowy
Speakers - Klipsch promedia 2.1, these are nice speakers I got yesterday
I have handed Crysis its own ass. The only games that can lag this machine is supreme commander and WC3. Wc3 lags because it's programmed by morons and supcom lags because its a cpu killer programmed by morons
The machine I bought yesterday to replace my old 9800 box that granny fried uses the following parts for a light $410 CAD;
Athlon x2 4400
2x1gb PC4600 corsair
Same mobo (Love that mobo, previous machine used an asus Nforce2)
ATI radeon HD 3540 lite (passively cooled)
OCZ 600w stealthgamer (yeah a bit overkill but it was very cheap, cheaper than lower-end psu's)
And recovered parts
120gb maxtor
$300 GSIF-compliant Terratec DMX 6fire soundcard
old case, dunno which it was
Show them your butt, and when you do, slap it so it creates a sound akin to a chorus of screaming spider monkeys flogging a chime with cacti. Only then can you find your destiny at the tip of the shaft.