ohm linked it before and I was lazy.... included it now anyway. I'll look into doing some trimming later tonight regardless. I'm used to thinking in terms of myself where I have money in the bank and I want it cost effective and I don't have a budget.for me having a budget means I spend more as I'll spend the entirety of my budget.
xlinks build is great, but if you really need to stay under $500, I would keep all of those parts and downgrade the hard drive. That hard drives is great but it might be a little more GBs than you need. And that would put you closer to $500, if theres something else you could downgrade then you could abtain you $500 goal.