Unfortunatley i had to put the cost of parts on my credit card because i need my PC back ASAP for school and shit. So i bought an AMD 64 3500+, a gig of dual channel OCZ memory, and a gigabyte board with an ATI Radeon X800XL pci-express. Next year since the mobo can handel it i might get one of those nifty Dual core AMD's, but right now im slim on cash.

Why Gigabyte?
Sell of your old stuff too.

Gigabyte just because the price is cheap, plus before whatever happened to this board which is like 3 and a half years old it was very stable, my dad has a gigabyte board and its stable, i had one beforee this one and it to was stable, i dunno i just like them. Plus i dont have to deal with setting up my HD(not a good enough reason) for another company when the gigabyte drivers and things are already on there. But the real reason i went with them is for the price of what im getting. I dont want/ need SLi so.