Computer Purchase Advice

[paladindythe]

i hate yuku, it ate my post.
in short: ATI card = pain in my experience
bougth a cyberpower computer a decade ago, bad experince with their hardware.
if you configure similar computer on the cyberpower site you can snag aGeForce 430 and a better chip for the same price, which should increase performance substantialy (the Geforce 430 has roughgly twice the performance of a radeon 5450)

The big catch with cyberpower is that they cut corners to push out cheap gaming computers. At least, the notebook I had had little issues (like lots of heat, short battery life, and failing DVD drives after a while). If I can get a decent gaming notebook for $800 (+tax) (from Best Buy, nonetheless) there has got to be a decent desktop system floating around somewhere.