Whitford,
The costs will vary a bit particularly since most of these components would have been purchased from a number of different wholesalers with some of our group receiving OEM discounts since they're "in the business".
As a guide, you shouldn't need to spend more than $2,000 - $2,500 as long as you buy from a retailer/wholesaler in your state (and not the likes of Harvey Norman or Dick Smiths) - to find them - start with a visit to
www.razorprices.com or
www.staticice.com.au and search for the components you want.
Mine is quite "overspecced" because I intend to use it for some heavy duty gaming (when I finally get my big LCD display) but there's certainly no need to go that far (e.g. 6800GT is really nice but $500 too much for your intended use and my ram was "top shelf" at the time)
Any of the above will provide the functionality you need - I'm sure the other guys will post their costs in this thread - mine came in at $3,190 on 5th November last year with the components coming from
Umart and
Auspcmarket in Sydney - these costs were pretty much retail as well - but remember - it's waaaay over powered.
Anyhow - for what it's worth - here's a summary of my invoice(s):
1 x SilverStone SST-LC03 -
$209
1 x SF Quiet 500w ATX -
$154
1 x Asus P4C800-Deluxe-WiFi S478 875P 1394 GBL SATA Motherboard -
$270
1 x Intel P4-3.2E/800 CPU: Desktop Pentium4 HT 1MB S478 Prescott Retail w/fan -
$336.00
2 x Western Digital WD2000PB 200GB 7200rpm 8Mb Cache Caviar SE -
$324
1 x Gigabyte GV-N68T256DH 256MDDRIII NX6800GT -
$748
2 x Corsair 2-2-2-5 Xtra-Low Latency 184-pin DDR SDRAM 200mhz w/heatspreader -
$396
1 x Hauppauge PVR-250-MCE (OEM) -
$154
1 x Microsoft Windows Media Center 2005 (OEM) -
$198
1 x Microsoft Remote Control and Receiver (OEM) -
$60
1 x Coolermaster Vortex CPU cooler P4 -
$36
1 x Liteon 52xCOMBO B CD-RW+DVD-ROM Internal: 52x52x32x16x Combo/Black - $
68
1 x Pioneer DVR-A08XL DVD-RW Internal: 16x± Dual Layer Black -
$193
1 x Labtec 967417-0403 KB & Mouse: Wireless Desktop Optical Edge -
$44
And for anyone here who feels like telling me that I could have got those items a lot cheaper - I know - but I didn't know YOU back then
