I, personally, can't recommend Dell too much.

I've been repairing PCs for years and their Hitachi hard drives crash or most often develop severe sector problems. They die regularly enough within a year or two, comparitively. Laptops and Desktops both.

Last week I had a customer with that exact problem. Dell told her that it was a software issue. After checking it out.. it was a faulty hard drive. I charged her a pretty moderate price for this info and after that, admittedly, they didn't give her any problems sending her a new hard drive. However, she had to pay yet more for me to clone her old hard drive to the new working one. They did not send a tech out to fix the issue. They just expected her to start fresh. She ended up spending about $145 getting it back to where it used to be. I won't mention how many tries it took me to clone the stinkin' thing without failure before I finally got it. She's lucky everything made it.. very close call.

Dude, don't buy a Dell.;)

A new case , motherboard , power , 2 gigs of 800mhz ram , 8800 series graphics card , and core 2 duo e6600 cpu should be about $1500 .