Budget Compact Gaming Rig

[ARom]

Putting together a budget gaming desktop for less than $500 (lower is better, I'm only interested in the GPU and CPU that won't bottleneck). I'm looking for suggestions although I will use the Desktop Reviews "best desktop you can build for $X" as a basis.

I will probably go with mostly used parts except for the Case w/PSU, the Motherboard and RAM.

I fly home every 8 months from college so I need a reasonably compact machine that I can fit in a big suitcase entirely or unscrew and fit in a suitcase along with the components wrapped in bubble wrap. (computer parts > clothes)

Do you know of a better budget compact case than the Micro ATX Cube Computer Case with 400W PSU? (11" width x 9" height x 13.8" depth w 400W power supply?)

MOTHERBOARD - BIOSTAR G31E-M7 LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

PROCESSOR - Used Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W

MEMORY - 2GB RAM

HARD DRIVE - Used Western Digital 250GB/320GGB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

OPTICAL DRIVE - Samsung 22X SATA DVDR /Cheapest SATA DVDRW

GRAPHICS - Used ATI Radeon HD 5770

Thoughts / Conflicts?

[Grimmwold]

Strongly recommend you look into getting 4GB of RAM so you don't end up having to page everything. Games want ram!

edit::I only say this because the ram doesn't say used. If yer gonna buy, buy enough, as you only have 2 ram slots on that mobo. Therefore any upgrade will make you ditch what you bought previously.