[Blood of Tyrants]

I broke down and bought a new computer this year. I found the HP with an AMD processor to be an excellent deal that went through setup easily and quickly. And best of all, it was only $750 after rebate of $75.

[Salgak]

Heck, I just BUILT myself a new box. Top-end Soyo MB, huge case, DVD Burner, 200GB HD, Athlon XP 3000+ and 1 GB of DRAM.

Cost me under a thousand bucks WITH shipping: hour to put together, 3 hours to load and update Windows. Even at the cheapest place I know to order computers ( www.ibuypower.com), I STILL saved over 200 bucks, and got a superior system to what I could have bought from them. . .

[Sloth]

I broke down and bought a new computer this year. I found the HP with an AMD processor to be an excellent deal that went through setup easily and quickly. And best of all, it was only $750 after rebate of $75.

Me, too. Actually, it's a Compaq, but that's the same as HP anymore. Athlon 3000+, and I put a 256MB 5200 NVidia card in it -- I suppose it'd run Doom 3, but probably not with all the cool bells & whistles turned on.