Bought a box from newegg for 500 bones and it works better than the box at work. Not much of a techie but, I bet you can get a good running box really cheap (500 bones) that'll do you fine? Dual core 5000+ 2.60 ghz 4 gigs of ram
Wow, thanks for posting your new specs pior, that should save me a good amount of time! I'll probably get a cheaper case though, $144 is steep! The Antec P182 does look awesome though. However, I wonder if I could find a better price/performence processor. I don't know. If I'm going to build it, I want to future proof it…