Unless you have a bigger broadband pipe than God himself, you do not need anywhere near that much cpu or memory. An old AMD K6/2 computer at 400 or 450 mhz, with 192 meg of memory will run Win2k like a champ. You can probably hook up a 120 gig hard drive to the motherboard controller, or if you want bigger, pick up a Promise controller for $10 or $12. If you look hard, you can get the case, power supply, motherboard, and memory for $10 or $20 (maybe even free). If you really want to burn DVDs from this computer, then I would spend a few dollars more and pick up something like a Dell Dimension 4100 with P3 1000 mhz for $40 or $50 complete. A P3 1000 is more than enough to burn DVDs at 16x.