What is your current Expected hardware that you WANT to buy?? And what state/country do you live in. I may have some equipment (new) that i might be able to donate. What pieces do you need, please list what kind of

Case AT/ATX and type MiniTower/Tower/Rackmount
Motherboard (please specify FSB/Memmory/Type of Processor and stats)
CPU What brand name do you trust? And what speed would you like
Hard Drives (if RAID please list a RAID board with motherboard or a RAID Card)
Hardware Accessories (Keyboard, Mouse, Firewire etc etc what you need)

Also as far as the paying for the EQ account, get with me on email system and i can let you use my account. I only keep it to collect packets anyways. I am working on getting one of my High level EQLive player friends to start working on this project. So should have some more Packets collected from many of the planes.

Just FMI tell me what it is you are expecting to purchase and ill see what i can do.