Is it possible?

the CPU is far more likely to become the bottleneck at low prices. I'd find it hard to put something together for less that 800.

Very well said! I plan on assembling a new rig in the near future and currently I'm looking at a $1500 budget. I build my rigs to at least allow for 2 OS and 2 GPU upgrades in a 4 year life span. My current E6700 build just rolled over 6 fairly worry free years on the original OS install ... :9: