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My new comp:

Q6600 Core2 Quad 2.4 GHtz

System Bus speed: 1066Mghz, Cache: 2 x 4MB L2

3 Gigs of DDR 2 memory

500 gig HD 7200rpm

Radeon HD 2600 pro

16 Speed DVD RW

Vista premium

20 inch widescreen LCD.

Altec Lansing VS4121 speakers

Futureshop, it was on sale last week.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10093844&catid=10607

I also got these speakers:

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10093051&catid=11553

Which totally kick ass.

Plus I got their 3 year warranty service plan which costed 200 extra.

With the speakers, the warranty and taxes it came to nearly 1500. Still, a really good deal imo.

Also the tower looks awesome, it has blue lights, tons of extra ports, and just looks really slick. it's almost too cool looking to come from a place like futureshop.

A quad core processor would be better, the games don't really support it fully right now, but in the next few years developers will start to take advantage of multicored processors.

Right now you're fine with the games available, but down the road you'll want a Quad.

If you can play the games you want at the settings you want,just keep that HD 2600Pro.Indestructible2

bioshock runs great, so does Call Of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3, but I downloaded the Crysis demo and it only ran decent at lower to mid range settings.

Q6600 Core2 Quad processor running at 2.4 GHtz per core.

System Bus speed: 1066Mghz

Cache: 2 x 4MB L2

3 Gigs of DDR 2 memory

500 gig HD 7200rpm

Radeon HD 2600 pro gfx card

Vista premium

Yeah, I know the graphics card isn't that great. So I'm going to buy a Geforce 8800 soon. Still, even tho the 2600 doesn't match the rewst of the computer in performance, I installed Bioshock today, turned to the highest settings at 1600x1050 and it it's running smooth.

FF7 by a mile. great characters, great story, great graphics, great gameplay (materia rocked). i remember when FF7 first came out, I and the rest of the world were basically in awe. Noone had ever seen this kind of a cinematic storyline before, the graphics were incredible, the cinematics were mindblowing. the best way i could put it is that the game was hollywood, it reeked of stye, technology, it reeked high budget. Lot's of games re hollywood now, lot's have the production values, back then it just stuck out as a showcase of how videogames had hit the mainstream, it paved the future of videogames as not just a bunch of pixelated characters on screen with blips as music, but as a serious medium capable of telling a story like a movie only interactive.

FFX was just boring, the story the characters, the plot twists were all just not interesting. FF7's story, characters and twists stand out today as among the best and most remembered in gaming history. Aeris' death could be the most remembered videogame event of that generation.