with 2000 there's so much you can do, hard to give you recommendations just based on a top dollar value but i would suggest you do a lil more research on what you prefer at least. Check out some of the AMD X2 or Opteron chips for processor, OCZ or some corsair memory....and check out some of the DFI lanparty boards. You can also look around this forum to see what other people have recommended and look as some of these guys sigs as they have some pretty nice systems.