[Sir Mandorallen]

Well, I know I don't need:
1.) A dvd player or burner.
2.) A moniter. (so long as the one we have now will be compatable with the new computer)
3.) Speakers. I have some Monsoons.
4.) A mouse. We have about three.

All we really need is the tower. With a pentium 4, a cd burner, about 50-80 gigs of space, something above 128 ram but below the outragoues 500 mark, a GeForce 4 64meg, and a very good sound card.

I don't mind getting upgrades from Dell only (if we get a Dell) so long as they don't over-charge me.

So maybe "state-of-the-art" kinda didn't fit at all. Oops.

Perhaps Dells are indeed the best choice... hmmm.....

What we have now is a custom made computer that was very low priced but lacked reliable components.
It has:
A pentium III equivalent-700MHZ
128 ram
40 gig hard drive
56k modem (I can't get broadband)
CD burner
Stealth III 3d card (sux)
I don't know our sound card but it sux

It ran smoothly until it hit Jedi Knight II. Ouch. So much for my frame-rates. [img]smile.gif[/img]
That and its getting full, is getting quirks, and isn't running quite as smoothly after it crashed to the point of oblivion. Now I can't even play UT. And its not all that old.