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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Breakdaddy" data-source="post: 1445424" data-attributes="member: 6608">I most definitely would NOT go emachine. As a computer repair tech for several years before my current job (server admin) I had several run-ins with emachines. They are generally poorly built, undercooled, and made of poor quality parts. Im disinclined to believe this has changed lately, but I could be proven wrong. When I had to deal with them, they generally had very limited upgrade paths (unable to support much additional ram, higher clock speed procs, and with limited AGP support (most were 1x when the standard was 4x)). Build your own if possible. If not, go fishing for good deals from Dell. Usually on their homepage you will find better deals than you might think with free or low-cost upgrade paths. If you have the knowledge, building your own can be rewarding. I recently upgraded mine, and am playing Farcry on it. WOW! What a beautiful game. Plays great on my machine. These are the specs:AMD Athlon 3200XP+512 Megs Corsair pc3200 (dual channel)ATI Radeon 9800XT 256megNvidia Soundstorm 5.1 onboard soundKlipsch Promedia 5.1 surround speakers (the 500 watters, not the 150's)Asus A7N8X-E 400 MHZ FSB Mobo1 200 Gig 8 MB Cache Western Digital HDD1 120 Gig 2 MB Cache Western Digital HDDPlextor 52x CD BurnerPioneer 8X DVD BurnerWindows XP Professional EditionGigabit Ethernet Networking</blockquote>