well so gar its together and running, all fans work, floppy works, hard drive works, cd rom works, windows is loaded, temp is in range, only problem is i have a led wire crossed somewhere, the power light doesnt show when on but the standby light does, i'll figure that out tommorow
heres what i have in it...
ATX Mid Tower Case with 10 BAYS 400 WATT power = $27.50
Biostar Motherboard = $54.50
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce2 SPP / MCP2
FSB: 200/266/333/400
RAM: 2x 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM (DDR 200/266/333/400 support)
Onboard LAN and Audio
AMD ATHLON XP 2500+ "Barton" 333 FSB PROCESSOR = $92.00
CPU: 1.83 GHz
Type: XP 2500 Barton Core
Cache: 512K L2, 128K L1, Total 640KB
BUS: 333MHz
Heatsink and Fan included
Asus V7100 PRO64 PURE 64MB Geforce 2 MX400 SDRAM Video Card = $40.00
GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 400MHz Ultra- CAS 2.5 = $83.00
BELKIN Floppy Drive Kit = $8.64
Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache = $76.05
Khypermedia 52x24x52 CD-RW = $28.00
ANTEC All Clear PRO 80mm 4 pin Fan = $4.50
ANTEC THERMAL GREASE = $2.49
Thermaltake copper CPU Shim = $2.99
= $419.67 + $16.08 shipping = $435.75
and 2 more fans at 16.00 for a grand total of $451.75