I saw this article and even though it was a few days old, thought some of you guys would find it interesting.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-pc-marathon,2058.html
This is a 500$ setup for a gaming PC. They also have a 1500$ setup and a 4500$ setup via links to other articles. These systems are meant to be overclocked, but should work fine if you don't want to. I could have posted this in the PC forum, but I figure those guys have already seen it. It is more beneficial to people coming into PC gaming that wants to build thier system from scratch.








You can easily make changes to it depending on whether or not you want to OC etc.