Richard,

I've gotta go with Keith on this. If you build your own, you'll spend a little more money and end up with a much better computer. You'll also have a MOBO that isn't a "mystery board" and will have lots of extra PCI and PCI Express slots.

If you build to "gamer specs" on the MOBO, CPU, fans and Ram you'll have something that's above specs of the typical 'puter for awhile.