Are these specs any good?

These are my specs for an Alienware Aurora 7500. Tell me what you think I need to change. Also, if you could post your PC's specs and how much you paid for it, that would be great.

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Processor w/ HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology
Operating System: Genuine Windows® Vista Home Premium
Chassis: Alienware P2 Chassis with 700 Watt Power Supply
Graphics Processor: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Memory: 1GB Low Latency DDR2 PC2-6400 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 512MB
System Drive: 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ 8MB Cache
Monitor: 20" Dell 1600 x 1050 UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel - Supports Blu-Ray!

An alienware... are you joking? you bought from Dell? PWNT!

I will get my spec list out of my favorites..

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Core 2 Quad 6600 - $530USD.
Lite-On 16X DVD / 48X CD - $23.63USD
Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 - $129.99USD
Antec P180B - $148.98USD
Western Digital 250GB - $69.99USD
Zalman CNPS9500 - $52.98USD
EVGA 8800GTX $566.12USD
Arctic Silver 5 - $10.98USD
Vista Home Premium - $124.98USD
SENNHEISER PC150 - $40.63USD
Logitech Office Pro Keyboard - $11.12USD
Razer Copperhead - $60.98USD
APC Surge protector $40.10USD
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Rev1.3 - $99.99USD
4X1024MB XMS2 DDR2-800 $264.00USD

--Total--
::$2174.47USD
Ok, I couldn't find a lot of Micron memory on the QVL...

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I recommend that you get at least 2Gb of memory and a better graphics card. 1Gb is going to cause a bit of fps chop in say... Crysis? If you want to do a lot of mapping on the next gen games then I recommend at least 4GB.

Everything else looks good.

That's not bad, try going for an intel e6420 or a e6600. But do remember, if you were to build it yourself, the specs would get much better for that price range.

An alienware... are you joking? you bought from Dell? PWNT!

I will get my spec list out of my favorites..

-edit-

Core 2 Quad 6600 - $530USD.
Lite-On 16X DVD / 48X CD - $23.63USD
Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 - $129.99USD
Antec P180B - $148.98USD
Western Digital 250GB - $69.99USD
Zalman CNPS9500 - $52.98USD
EVGA 8800GTX $566.12USD
Arctic Silver 5 - $10.98USD
Vista Home Premium - $124.98USD
SENNHEISER PC150 - $40.63USD
Logitech Office Pro Keyboard - $11.12USD
Razer Copperhead - $60.98USD
APC Surge protector $40.10USD
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Rev1.3 - $99.99USD
4X1024MB XMS2 DDR2-800 $264.00USD

--Total--
::$2174.47USD
Ok, I couldn't find a lot of Micron memory on the QVL...

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I recommend that you get at least 2Gb of memory and a better graphics card. 1Gb is going to cause a bit of fps chop in say... Crysis? If you want to do a lot of mapping on the next gen games then I recommend at least 4GB.

Everything else looks good.

HostileEffect

Is Quad core going to be full supported in the future or is it just going to be a transition core?