Shortly into my freshman year at NDSU my friend Mike and I went to Best Buy and purchased copies of Half Life 2. My Toshiba R15 was all but unable to run the game so I soon ordered $800 worth of parts. This system played the game quite well.
I spent a bit more to get the ATI All-In-Wonder graphics card. The drivers were crap and always crashed so I was never really able to watch or record TV like I had dreamed of.
In my junior year I had this system (in the clear case) poorly positioned on top of a baseboard heater in the dorms and something overheated and blew out a bunch of components. I have long regretted that I had many of those parts replaced under warranty...not very ethical.
At some point I realized that I could buy a second Proview PL713s LCD screen for pretty cheap used so I got that. It was pretty awesome to have two matching LCDs!