You may be able to build one to your liking cheaper. Many companies sell the motherboards, cpu chips, memory, harddrives, video cards, etc. Thats what I do. I use a ZEUS motherboard with the AMD Athalon processor. This motherboard allow up to 8 perifials, i.e. hard drives, cdroms, cdrw's, zip drive, etc. Also allows 4 USB inputs. This board requires a 300watt power supply (about 39$) I also would suggest an AGP video card with at least 16 meg vid mem onboard. And of course, the more memory the better, I use 640 megs, it is relatively cheap right now. 59 bucks for 256 meg around here. If you go for a big drive, I would recommend partitioning it to at least 10 gig minimum. 20 gig drive=2 10 gig drives. I use a 10 meg drive for my "C" only. I use other 20+ gig drives for graphics, games, etc. This is in case my operating system crashes, I will still have intact my graphic, game and misc programs on the other drives. Partitioning drive also makes it alot easier to back it up! Also you can defrag and virus scan in little pieces instead of one long session. You could try TigerDirect.com to start, but there are alot of places to buy parts individually. (Sometimes you have to pay for the Name too) Good luck in you search and your future purchase! TMG