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And me, i have recently changed my hardware:


ASRock Dual-SATA2

AMD Athlon64 3500+ (overclocked to 3800+)

1024Mo RAM Dual Channel (Corsaire PC3200)

NVidia GeForce 7900GT (PCI-E 16x) 128Mo (Overclocked with a ventilator under 20db)

Monitor 17"

Maxtor HDD 120Gb (in use)
Maxtor HDD 200Gb (in USB for saves and downloads...)

Plextor CD R-RW Read/Write 52x
NEC DVD -/+ R/RW Read/Write 52x

No special sound card ... only Stereo.

OS: Windows 2000

Planned System (building around Christmas/ Late January)

ATX Case (480W + Air Filter) - £60.77


AM2 Motherboard:

MSI nForce 570 - DDR2 - X2, 64, FX or Sempron - 7.1 Audio - £62.39


CPU:

AMD Athlon 64, 3200, 512Kb, 1000FSB - £53.73


RAM:

Corsair Memory CM2X1024 XMS-6400 800Mhz - £86.60


Hard Disk:

Samsung T133 300Gb SATA-300, 7200RPM, 8Mb, - £67.31
(According to PC Pro, on of the fastests dispite only 8Mb Cache)


Graphics Card:

DabsValue 7600GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E DVI - £104.98


DVD:

NEC DVD+-R/RW 16x Dual Layer Silver - £22.25


Floppy Drive:

Mitsumi 7 in 1 Media Drive Internal - £14.65


PCI to PCMCIA:

DabsValue PCI to PCMCIA Host Card PCI - 9.40 X 2
(I've got a large number PCMCIA devices such as a creative labs Audio Buggy, a Video Capture card, a TV card and a couple of microdrive cards.)
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Total Cost (Including VAT): 495.46 + 13.38 Shipping

It should give enough power for any current application or game. It's the lastest AM2 motherboard so in theory it should give me a few years for upgradability with reasonable processor speeds and hardware.

That dude gave me an idea i can use one of my old cases and a old HD to run a file server off of =P

Good idea, my father still uses a Pentium 1 60Mhz as a file server, you don't need alot of cpu power, though I admit he's installed a PCI-IDE interface card to deal with the BIOS limitations in regaurds to hard drive recognition, and the ATA-33 standard interface. It's not the fastest thing on boot up, but over a 100M/bit network, considering that the maximum potential for file upload and download is just 12.5Mbytes a second you don't (remember networks are Mbit not Mbyte rated), the file transfere is perfectly respectable, and wouldn't be much, if any faster on a more powerful machine.