After I read through some of these stories it makes me feel bad for posting anything.
My system was a budget PC built over 5 years ago, AMD Athlon 64x2 4800, 3gb ram. Hard drive wise I just had to use a possible bad hard that was removed from my wife's dell laptop because my hard drive died and it needed to be replaced. Running a Lightscribe DVD drive and an IDE DVD drive.
The system was built for gaming but has migrated to a work pc since I work from home I need to scrap a system together that is more reliable then the current system has been in the last few months.