okay well yes im on my way to selling my emachines my hooked up that was for sale hahahah hooked it up and sold it for 650 the retail price was around 400 prob not really worth that much but anyway I HAVE 650 now thats right 650 us bills this is why i need ur help i need to find a mobo and a case and processor i want the 2500 barton athlon xp and the rest is up to you guys what ever you guys think is the best mobo all under 650 incsluding badd . graphics card and memory and ram

motherboard: Abit NF7-S
RAM: PC3500 Mushkin Level II or PC3500 OCZ Platinum EL
Graphics: umm 9800PRO?

what kinda hard drive
and how much would this all be?

DFI mobo how does this sound?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...D452-2018&Tab=1

Maxtor 160GB "7200RPM/8MB Cahche" $119.99
Abit NF7-S v2.0 ---------------------------$105.99
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+ ----------- $91.00
Kingston Hyper X 512MB Kit------------- $110.00
ATI 9600 XT--------------------------------$189.99
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TOTAL $617.00


So heres just a start of the rest is up to you like a, HSF, CDROM, Sound?, floppy, round cables, fans, etc...

Hope this helped..

wow thats a nice rig right their

hmm i only want a 80 gig hard drive thats wayy to big and with the little money left over i could get like rounded cables and all

You can pick up an 80 gig WD from newegg for around $79 usd, the special edition with the 8 mb cache. That is what I have used in almost every system that I have built and I have never had a problem with it. And on top of what he has there, you might wanna pick up a case somewhere along the way. For starters try something cheap that comes with a decent PSU so you can kill two birds with one stone, then at a later date, you might want to move up to a nice lian-li or coolermaster aluminum case. However, they are about 150 plus at least 50 more for a PSU and that would top your budget. :-/

Go for
Kingston Hyper X PC2700 or PC3200,
OCZ Performance Series PC-3200 or
Corsair XMS PC3200

well after rebates its only 89.99 for the hard drive,, lol i took that with out even looking at it but, all in all its a good HDD.. O and this hdd is from Outpost.com

i was lookin at the athe abit nf7 very nice mobo not bad at all. i like it so i think ima get that for the ram i want 512 no matter what so what ever is cheaper and sometimes they are the 256 rather buy 2 than one 512 i am defilantly getting the hyper X for better performance and what kinda case is out thier thats under 100 thats what i wanna spend and has to have a PSU in it if you guys find one awesome..