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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Some gaming -- Starcraft 2, Portal 2, etc. Programming (mostly Java and C), web browsing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $500 max with everything included. If a $550 setup somehow blows the...

Thanks guys! Some wonderful advice here. I ended up going with ordovician's suggested build, except I stuck with the WD drive (w/ Vista combo). It's the one I use in my system and know from experience that it's excellent. 640 gigs is probably already overkill for them, so there's very little...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? They'll mostly be using it for surfing the net (including playing a few flash games on Yahoo and the like), watching movies, organizing their photos, and some light photoshop work. They currently have a crappy Dell that they purchased three years ago, so...