Thanks for the feedback.
It has come down to the Gateway or the
Dell XPS 630 with the Intel Core2 E8400 (6MB,3.0 GHz, 1333FSB).
Man, I've been putting this new buy off for 2 years... I'm so close to just saying the heck with it and getting something. Anything will be better than my 2001 P4 2.4 with 1GB RAM