started out as an ibm 300pl, kept the mother board scraped everything else, added 2 gig of ram[2 differnt sticks of 1 gig] 200 gig western digital hard drive[master], my old 80 gig wester digital[slave], intel pentium 4/ 3.4 ghz, added memorex 52-32-52 cd burner/ sony doudle layer dvd burner 12X, speakers are dolby surround pro logic 5.1 300 watts all together 50 watt X 2 fronts/ 50 watt X 2 rears/ 100 watt sub, also have an older 17 inch gateway flat screen.

ive got less then 500 bucks sunk into my system so far, it easily rivals "name brand systems" ive seen for 1500-2000 bucks at best buy.