It's not that hard to build one though I had someone guiding me a bit and advising on certain stats and parts. I only "skimped" on RAM because I shelled out enough for one day and RAM is easy enough to find at good prices. I may add prices to this stuff later, but I may not because the one guy didn't itemize cost on the reciept where I bought most of it. Total approx cost, $1k. Getting a flat panel LCD monitor soon too.

This is the outside (may look more blue in this pic but it's definitely purple). It has 5 internal HD bays.



Stats
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHZ)
RAM: 3 GB [edit 11/11/05]
Internal drives:
200 GB Serial ATA Western Digital
80 GB IDE WD
20 GB IDE WD
External Drives:
16X LiteOn DVD-R/RW plus minus burner
52X LiteOn CDRW burner
Old floppy from old comp
Graphics card: 940GT Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X [edit 11/11/05]
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2 (does anyone even care about this)

Extras:
Video capture card ATI TV wonder pro (going to convert all my VHS to DVD)

Software:
Win XP OS
Oh please like you want to read the 1000000 programs I will be putting on it haha... though I will list my main favorites here someday.

Gameware:
Wow. I can finally install all those really cool games Charles and I got but had nowhere to play them.
Everquest II of course (I'm Zehl on the Unrest server)
Restaurant Empire
D&D Temple of Elemental Evil
Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds
Gothic II
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights Shadows of Undrentide expansion
Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark expansion
VTM Bloodlines
Probably more.

Peripherials:
These aren't new, just what I use.
Color Printer: HP deskjet 940c
Scanner: CanoScan N122OU (super thin)
USB hub: 7 port clear purple
USB headset (this is new, made for PS2, works for PC)

I also picked up a wireless router so my laptop is now truly wireless.