Ok guys some progress here, I placed an order for my new Desktop yesterday... and I said I wasn't going to Dell this time... but somehow I still ended up ordering from them... had to take advantage of the discounts they give to university students.
Its a
- Dell Dimension E520 with Pentium D Processor 820 w/ Duo Core
- 1 GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
- 256 nVidia Geforc 7300 LE TurboCache
- 160 GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
I know the graphics card is just average and I had to go down from 250 GB to just 160 GB Hard Drive, but at the moment you know, thats all I could bear to spend. Whether this will look any better or not I will have to see, also sucks a little that this doesn't have widescreen, which will take some getting used to as well.
What I plan to do is when I get the new desktop, I will either upgrade directly to Vista (our university is providing it for free), or I will make it a Duel thing that Pdub told me earlier, where I choose at bootup whether to load XP or Vista. After this I plan to finish the 20 some games I have on my External HD right now, then I'll make a decision whether to continue the dynasty or start a brand new one. Open to suggestions, just let em flow in.