Lets see for a 1500 bucks you could get the AMD FX processor, almost 900 bucks for the processor, and about 200 for a motherboard. Then you could buy 200 for a gig ram. Your Graphics card would be around let me say, 150 to 200. 100 for Case. You already have a monitor it would service, 150 for a hdd, probualy a 160gbhd. But that computer would be awsome. Anyways my computer cost me 700 bucks and its pritty good. If you want let me know what you have and we can search for your stuff, Newegg sends the stuff realy fast and we could simply just search there on your budget, ill even show you how to put windows on and everything, just shoot me a private message with your email or just contact me threw msn or yahoo. ill try and be on as much as possible, i tend to play games alot so when i log on get me quick. lol Ill help you as much as i can. Im a noob as well but i know how to build a computer. Its super ez. I have patience for you, since i have gotten patience from so many others. Hit me up.