Wow!!! My head is spinning but I did look up your recommendation explorer and I found if had to go with Dell it would coast me 1,0049 Studio XPS 81000 for all the same modification,way over my budget and the items that you recommended are probably a lot better and not a standard like company's have. Known I have to convinces the wife who of course wants the I mac. Just one question I notice while researching the mobo they offered bigger power supply units 650, 750 dose it matter? The games I play are so far Halo' Call of Duty 1, 2 will not work on the system, Need for speed, EM3,EM4. no video editing. But would like to look into,over the winter doing skins for my City Emergency units Boston... Thanks for all your help with this dilemma,talking with people who know computers helped tremendously. I just have to lessening and do some research. Hopefully in few months I can enjoy playing EM5 2012 and some unbelievable mods created. Thanks again Explorer and to all who have made this site possible.