You could build the same system for about the same price, maybe a bit less. IMO, the only downside to it is the video card. I just priced a similar system for a friend w/ the Athlon 1800XP and 512 meg of DDR, with a GeForce3Ti200 and it came to $1000. No OS though. So I would say it was a fair price. If he built it himself, he's losing no money on it. If the OS is XP Pro, that would help.