lets see
it was more than a year ago...

the birth of my Thunderbird

born on August of 2001

Athlon 1.2GHz 266MHz fsb
Asus A7A266 /plain board with no onboard audio and raid
i picked the A7A266 b/c that time DDR is expensive but i know it will drop later
and A7A266 has both DDR and SDR so i got 128mb SDR first
later i got 256mb of DDR PC2100 and later one more stick of PC2100 512mb
so total of 768mb of DDR
i guess thats enuf... but i have both slots full now and mobo has no more empty slots for DDR

300 watts PSU amd certified, i used 350 first but it also killed my athlon and mobo because it wasnt a certified and in full compliance

generic yet futuristic looking case ====> cheapo with front audio and USB ports

Sony 52x CD-ROM
Creative SB Live! Platinum (something i wished for for a long time)
Geforce2 MX200 ------> recently upgraded to Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
4.1 speakers from Altec Lansing
17' Samsung CRT monitor
40GB IBM GXP60 7200rpm ATA100 hdd
NEC Internet keyboard
Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse

all came about 1500 CDN after tax w/ monitor
14.5% tax that is...

so about 961 USD