I also recently built my first PC..
AMD Athlon XP 1600+,
ASUS A7V266-C mobo,
256MB DDR 2100,
6 GB hard drive from my old iMac, (need a bigger one)
15" NEC Multisync LCD 1525V,
BenQ 56x cd-rom (should've got a CDRW)
and a Geforce 4 Ti4200.
Windows XP
The only reason I built my PC was...