If you shop some forums, you can get some great deals also.
I just picked up a Tyan 2460-4M motherboard, which is a server style board, with onboard Gigabit Ethernet and USB, and 3 full length PCI slots (64 bit, 64 mhz), and 2 standard PCI ( 32/33); two Athlon XP 2400+ processors modded to enable dual processor capability; a half GB of PC 3500 DDR RAM and a full tower case for $300. All I have to add in is a video card and a sound card, an optical drive I already have, as well as a SCSI card and a nice 15K RPM SCSI drive, and I'll have a nice development machine.
That same week, I got my brother an Athlon 64 3200+, an Albatron motherboard, half gig of RAM for $400. He already has the rest of the parts.
I've seen entire computers sold there for $700 or so that would smoke most of Dell's offerings. You can take a look if you want. The site is
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