Great - thanks for all the info.
Now, when I say 'Alienware' - I don't mean one of those ultra-tricked out units (though, that'd be great) - my budget is more like $900 -
Would this: http://visionman.com/AMD-Athlon-Gamer/VCPREGS640.htm?PHPSESSID=5d69d678bcad59c0dd5c09f19aaf44d1
or one of these: http://www.alienware.com/Product_Pages/desktop_all_gaming.aspx
make good machines? Both seem similar - not sure of which video card is better.
On both (or on any machine) - I'd slowly build up to about 2gig of memory - seems like that's really what it's going to take.
Now, when I say 'Alienware' - I don't mean one of those ultra-tricked out units (though, that'd be great) - my budget is more like $900 -
Would this: http://visionman.com/AMD-Athlon-Gamer/VCPREGS640.htm?PHPSESSID=5d69d678bcad59c0dd5c09f19aaf44d1
or one of these: http://www.alienware.com/Product_Pages/desktop_all_gaming.aspx
make good machines? Both seem similar - not sure of which video card is better.
On both (or on any machine) - I'd slowly build up to about 2gig of memory - seems like that's really what it's going to take.