This afternoon I decided I would buy the parts for my barebones kit that has been sitting for a month. So I went and purchased an Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo. Started to put it all together as soon as I got home, but 2 hours later I’ve determined the memory is bad and the store is now closed so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to continue. That just sucks.