Ross:
This is the second lowest priced PC on Best Buy.com
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7118558&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01172&id=1109233804582
For $500, you get:
2.9ghz processor speed
512mb of ram
16x DVD Rom
80gb HD.
But you also get:
Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics with up to 64MB shared video memory.
That last bit will be your bottleneck, but I'm not sure actually how fast that chip is. It probably is pretty crappy. Probably less than a Radeon 7200 in performance, like on my dad's PC.
And I don't know if you can upgrade the video. It may not have an AGP port, or PCI-E ports.
This is the second lowest priced PC on Best Buy.com
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7118558&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01172&id=1109233804582
For $500, you get:
2.9ghz processor speed
512mb of ram
16x DVD Rom
80gb HD.
But you also get:
Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics with up to 64MB shared video memory.
That last bit will be your bottleneck, but I'm not sure actually how fast that chip is. It probably is pretty crappy. Probably less than a Radeon 7200 in performance, like on my dad's PC.
And I don't know if you can upgrade the video. It may not have an AGP port, or PCI-E ports.