we picked up Dell Poweredge 840 boxes earlier this year for around $600. we're running 2.4ghz quad core xeons, 4gb of ram, and two 150gb seagate drives. I think

we picked up Dell Poweredge 840 boxes earlier this year for around $600. we're running 2.4ghz quad core xeons, 4gb of ram, and two 150gb seagate drives. I think the only thing I would change is maybe drop in a SSD or a 15k drive to make the system a bit more snappy.