Would suggest shopping around for PCs. Picked up a brand new Gateway with I7 quadcore, 8 GB of RAM, 750GB hard drive, wireless card, excellent sound card, and a 1 generation old 1 GB graphics card for just over $600 not too long ago. They were being cleared out as they didn't sell well once the latest graphics card was released and for having less than 1TB of hard drive. Formatted hard drive to clear out all of the software that came on it to eliminate all of the useless stuff that bogs them down before installing OS. Runs very fast. Have thought about putting in SSD but find the machine is plenty fast enough for me.