I used this article as a base for my first build about 6 months ago. I wanted to get the basics together for as close to $500 as I could and start tweaking it later: I went with: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition $119.00 OCZ Fatalt1ty 550W Modular PSU $73 Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HD103SJ $59.00 G.S...