David! I can beat DELL, and IBM and HP. My machine, which i know as myself is really balanced. Wanna know how much well equipped hand made putta looks in Russia? Anyway, you' ll have to :-))))) Building - free :-))) - will i pay money 2 myself? Pentium IV 2533, Northwood, 533Mhz, - $249 MB - Asus P4B533 - $106 DIMM DDR 2X512 - Kingston PC2100 - 2X$142 = $288 Video - Microstar MS 8870 GeForce4 Titanium TVin\out, DVI, - $173 Sound - EgoSys Wave terminal - sorry this is specific - not in count HDD - WD 1000BB - 100Gb - $157 DVD+RW Combo Pioneer 103BA -$199 Tower, cooler, keyboard, mouse, etc about $150 Acoustics -SVEN HT 485 - $240 Display - Mitsubishi Diamond pro 920 19" - $ 430 As a result - $1992. Such monster done by brandname would cost about 4000. - so - i choose hand made. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/