Its ok bro, I thought PC's were expensive till I saw what my car costs me... but at least if you're really good at that other people start footing the bill for you.
At least you're using Linux and no doubt picking up some skills that could one day make it a lot easier for you to afford the nice hardware. My first PC was a manufactured no name brand celeron at 950mhz, and took two and a half weeks to complete one seti WU. I used Velcro to attach a second hard drive, and had integrated graphics. But after working a little bit, and a bit more patience, I made some improvements as I'm sure you will too.
Now, with that said... some eye candy.
Ghetto P4 setup (temporary)
From left to right, 15in TV / monitor, 17in VGA LCD, 17in DVI LCD, and the home of my E6600 the Lian Li PC65-B. In front is a Saitek Eclipse II and a Logitech MX510.
And here we have the contents of the tower and why I cant strip the LCD out of my dead laptop and use it as a third monitor on this case.
Thats all the hardware in my sig, Ultra 120 w/ massive fan, X1950XT, and almost too much storage hardware in the bottom
. I would like to point out the high tech laptop cooling platform at the top of the case... currently inhabited by squatters while the laptop vacations on top of the printer.