I have just completed a computer build for my daughter and her husband. I used a Lian Li mid tower case and I was highly impressed with its unique features. I am by no means an expert at bulding computer systems but I have had some experience. I 've built three systems with new
cases, two full towers and one mid tower and I rebuilt one old HP case. In the future I will most definitely use a comparable Lian Li case because of its modular features. Not only was the internal hard drive assembly removable but the mother board, power supply, and the external 3.5 drive bays. Compared to the other builds this was a breeze.

I built this system with a750 GB Seagate SATA Drive, Sony DVD recorder/player, ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard, 4GB(2 x 2048) DDR2 Patriot Viper Memory, Lian Li case, AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core Processor 2.2GHz, and Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit operating system.

The cost of this setup was quite reasonable. I already had a keyboard and an LCD monitor
so that wasn't factored into the expense. The motherboard came with an integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU so I didn't purchase a video card but the jury is still out on it because I haven't tried any of the high end games to see how it responds.

The whole thing cost about $700 to put together but it will be another $100 if I need to buy
a video card.

I'm still loading it up with software Microsoft Office 2007, avast! virus protection, etc and getting all the Microsoft updates. Also downloading the various test software like Mersenne number primality test program(runs tests to find out if a number is a prime number), and memtest.