[Darksheare]

I'm building this machine piecemeal.
The motherboard was 104 at googlegear.com (49 bucks for 256Mb of Kingston PC2700 DDR)
Free shipping.
I had the tower case for a year sitting empty, 300 Watt power supply, so the board went into there.

The processor is borrowed at the moment, until I save up enough for at least an XP2600. (Anywhere from 104 to 190 bucks, retail in box with AMD approved fan.)
The drives were scrounged from my old systems, ATA 100 drives are still usable, and are not yet obsolete.

The CD rom drive and the CD-RW drive are only UDMA 33 drives, though.
(Cough)

Scratch building a machine yourself is rather entertaining, and can actually be a good hobby once you get good at it. (I'm not THAT good at it yet.)
I DO know people who make money building machiens for people.
I also know people who can get good prices on things.
(Though I have been able to trump their prices once in a blue moon..)

Be jealous of the son's system.
And then build one to stompinate it.
*chuckle*

[SAMWolf]

Be jealous of the son's system.
And then build one to stompinate it.

Some day, maybe. (or I'll just wait a week and his will be obsolete) :-)