HP Pavilion 761N Desktop (1.67GHz AMD Athlon 2000+ , 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive)

Rating:
Summary: Great performance for great price
Review: I've had this system for a week now .... It performs exceptionally well for a system {at this} price. Don't want to make this too wordy so here's the lowdown:
Pros:
Performance up to par with home built systems using similar parts
DVD and CD-RW performance is excellent and very quiet
Hard drive is very very quiet and is Ultra ATA/100
Built in video card is good enough to run Windows programs
Supports hardware monitoring so you can track heat, fan speed,etc
Multiple fans
USB and firewire ports upfornt
Dolby Digital SPDIF output
Keyboard
The case is a new design from HP, much sleeker and sexier than anything they've had before

Cons:
The fan noise might be too loud for some people (I like to hear the powerful fan...reliability over asthetics/acoustics)
Hard drive is only 5400RPM
No remaining expansion bays
Mouse and speakers aren't that great
No recovery CD (recovery runs off separate HD partition)
Flimsy BIOS doesn't seem to work correctly with passwords
A load of shareware and other [things] pre-loaded when you get it

I think that's it but overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who wants performance on a budget. I teamed this up with a 18inch LCD display for less than $2000. See if you can get that anywhere else. I'm loving it...hope you like yours too
:)