I just spent last weekend building my friend a nice computer!

Specs:

AMD Athalon 64 3800+

1 Gig OCZ PC 4800 RAM

Nvidia 7800 GT

WD Raptor 10,000 RPM HDD

That is a very good computer.  And it only cost him 1,100 dollars.  The only problem was a got him a lightscribe drive with it.  Apparently these drives have firmware issues and don't work very well when they get in windows.  Actually, they didn't work at all, least ours didn't.  So I spent most of the weekend trying to figure out why the drive I got wasn't playing any disks.  I built the entire computer by the book and it always works for me.  I've built like 5 computers and they never had done this before.  I ended up taking the drive to a local computer shop only to have him tell me the drive was bad.  So anyway we bought a new one on the spot and it worked fine.  Now he's playing CSS with me and getting better fps than I do.  Oh well, at least I know someone in real life who plays CSS.

His video card came with CoD2 (Call of Duty 2.)  I've been looking at this game and now that he has it I think I'm going to pick it up.  Either way I need some PSP games, I think I'm going to get Socom.  It looks nice for a hand held game.  On the PC side it's as amazing as ever, playing 2 year-old games and having a blast still.  Oh but Ryan F. really needs to get BF2, it would look amazing on his 7800 GT.  He still needs an MX-518 though, so he should get that first.  Well Counter-Strike: Source is sweet, even when not playing competitively.

*Edit* The Radeon X1900 XTX is amazing!  ATI IS STILL KING!!