I've been getting good results with the slightly lower priced emachines offerings.

Good quality builds, lotta bang for the buck, but like the others you still may have to add a few things to take it to the top. First thing I always do is swap out the stock PSU for a higher wattage one that has a quiet fan. Especially if the use will be for DAW work or other application where you will be adding peripherals such as soundcards and/or more disk drives. And its always a good idea to throw more memory RAM at these things.

I have found that it is often the case where you can purchase a computer that does not have a lot of RAM in it and then purchase more RAM separately and come out ahead on the price, too. So I tend to avoid those "fullhouse" offerings and moave downscale a bit to the ones that may not come with all that RAM installed at the factory.

Another way to go and save money would be to consider upgrading the box you already have. New mobo and cpu plus RAM and new OS install disks. Careful spec. comparison can tell you if the other things you already have are compatabile with the new mobo and you should do that excercise thoroughly before buying or risk painting yourself into a corner.



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