Athlon II X2 2.7GHz Barebones Kit w/Case, 480W PSU, Foxconn C-B22-740G-K3

It lacks a hard drive and an operating system, but for around $80 you can get a half decent hard drive, and for around $110 you can get Windows 7 Home premium OEM. So for around $380 you could have a fairly good PC.

If Athlons get any cheaper they will be paying us to take them out the shop, noticed a lot of good deals on socket FM1 Liano bundles over here Advance Technologies | Advance AMD FM1 Dual Core Upgrade 1.......Asus M/board + CPU + Fan + Case + Memory

Only thing that kills me is now everyone would rather just get a cheap $300 Laptop from the store insted of getting a Desktop that would be easyer to fix and would have more performance. My wife wanted a laptop and once I let her play her games on my gaming computer she dusnt even like to use her laptop. It seems custom builds are a thing of the past now.

laptops will probably bite the dust before desktops will, you can do an awfull lot on a phone you can with a laptop, more people are buying laptops for the convenience but as handheld devices improve they will start to encroach on laptop sales, but desktops for gaming and other resource hungry software will almost certainly continue, when you look at how much m/b makers put into marketing boards for gamers and high performance users you start to realise how big a market it is, it may be a niche market but its big enough for companies to invest heavily to keep them loyal.