I hope you remembered to check that the parts are compatible with each other.

I don't really go on wicked spending sprees.

My computer is the same computer I bought when I was 14 years old. So yeah, it's about 7 years old! I've upgraded it though, part by part, so in truth it's only the case and an unused network card that's original. I have 4 GB DDR2, 1,75 TB storage (1 TB of which is external), an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3 GHz) and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT (I need to replace that soon).