my PC:
Display card - Quadro FX500 - £170 ~= $1900
CPU - AMD Althon 1800+ - $500
Motherboard (very cheap AGP 4X) - $800
RAM - 1GB - $1200
soundcard - SBlive (3 years old) - $500
HD - 60GB + 80GB = $1000
CDROM..(or DVDrom) etc etc....
less than 7k HKD ...even with a home-use monitor....
my comp. is considered to be "cheap" now =_=...
but works prefectly with Maya, Painter ,combustion ,photoshop etc......
and Quadro FX500 have all the functions of Geforce FX 5200...
no problem for gaming as well
