Re: I took the plunge!
I spent just under a grand total in parts from Newegg.com and a 19" LG monitor from Best Buy. It took my fiancee and I three hours to build last evening. I have an AMD Athalon II 2.8GHz quad core, Radeon HD 5770 1GB Video Card, 4 gigs of ddr3 RAM, 500g hard drive all stuffed into a carvernous Xclio Windtunnel case which seems like it's half cooling fan. I played for a few hours last night and it was beautiful.