[Michael]

i've decided to can buying an xbox 360 for a while. mainly because my old pc is basically a spare parts machine. my video card i gave to a friend who had a killer pc, but no vid card. the card i had was fairly powerful for such an old weak machine, and i knew i wasn't gonna be upgrading the rest of the pc components, so i gave him my card.

my brother's dvd rom drive just decided to not work anymore, so i gave him my cd burner and my ram. the HD i moved to my nephew's more powerful pc and i've been using his pc since. so i really don't have a pc for myself, say, if my sister decides to move, or whatever....they walk away with my nephew's pc and i'm stuck with an HD and nothing else.

what i'm getting at is, instead of getting a 360, i'm gonna get a new pc instead. i saw this sweet looking pc in computer gaming world magazine and was wondering what you comp tech gee...ner...dudes think of it. here are its specs according to the magazine:

-NVIDIA nForce 4-SLI Chip Dual PCI-Express Motherboard
-Raidmax Samurai Gaming Case
-Corsair 2048MB DDR400 Memory
-Serial-ATA 250GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
-16x Double Layer DVDR/RW + CDR/RW Drive
-16x DVD-ROM Drive
-2x NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT PCI Express 256MB Video Cards powered by Xmidia
-7.1 Channel Surround 3D Premium Sound
-10/100/1000 MBps Ethernet LAN
-Optical Mouse & Multimedia Keyboard
-Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
-Free Wireless 802.11g 54MBps Network Adapter
-1 year tech support, blah blah...
-AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor

what do you all think? it's a total of $1800. this is the one i'm aiming for, for myself. mostly for gaming and other multimedia purposes. i just have a few questions for those in the know:

-the video card itself, is it powerful? i mean its coming with 2 of them, but i'm curious if each invididual card is powerful
-the cpu, in GHZ, how much is this amd 3000+ more or less?
-pricing. do you all think the price is just fine, a lil too much, etc.