I can link you to all the products. I'm not going for maximum awesome. I'm going for being able to run the game without crashing out and still looking decent like XBox quality.
Rough prices:
320 GB HD for 45 dollars
4 GB of RAM for 79 dollars (Corsairs as well)
Antec Sonata III case for 89 dollars and that includes the power supply
Going with the AMD athlon II 3.0 Dual core processor for 68 bucks
I'm going with a relatively cheap motherboard, it only has a few PCI slots, but don't need many. It's 70 dollars. Reading reviews it's a pretty tough bitch though. Can't remember what it is exactly, and newegg wont let me log on right now for some reason.
The graphics card I'm kinda splurging on a bit.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102864
164 dollars.
Anyway it only cost me 515 dollars which was 65 dollars over my goal, but I think I'll have a decent gaming rig. I don't care about the best settings, just want middle ground kinda stuff.
320 GB HD should be more than enough to hold all the games I want. I'm really only interested in Diablo III anyway, but sure some other games will come along that I'll at least want to play. It will definitely hold all my music, and have plenty of space left. Plus it's not like I can't get a larger drive later if need be for storage. They were running a special on some Corsair RAM last week so grabbed that up. It's like 119 dollars now I think, but regardless I would have went with G.SKILL 4 GB for like the same price had corsair not been on sale. 4GB of RAM should get me through the rough times. lol. I've heard really good things about AMD athlon II, and figured I'd give it a whirl. Going on the advice of a friend who is more into building than me and he says it's a great processor for the price. The motherboard I am getting could support all my stuff and had really boss reviews. Has integrated sound (Which is fine as I always have to play with headphones on anyway) and integrated Ethernet. Limited PCI slots like I said, but I only need the one for my video card anyway. That case is a steal and the power supply included has more than enough power to run my machine. That case has great reviews, and for the price it doesn't look half bad either. Not my ideal case, but I'll get over it.
I've heard good things about the graphics card as long as you're just looking for middle ground gamerness.
And the OS is not a factor, and you can take that to mean whatever you would like.