that is a good price for an amd based system with 1 gig of ram. i have 1500.00 in my tower specs as follows and a free bump for you dark.
ASUS P5NSLI mobo
Intel Pentium D950 (with thermaltake blue orb 2 cpu fan)
geforce 7300 gs video card
AOPEN DVD Burner
(2) Seagate 320 Gb SataII HDD's
1 Gig 533 mhz ddr2 memory
floppy drive
raidmax volcano 630 modular power supply
all in a casedge diabolic minotaur case.