I run a Dell and although I am aware that it is not a computer guy's dream, it does that job for me and pretty darn well. I of course take no offense to the Dell comments as you guys know what you want and build it exactly that way.

My only reason for posting is to help guys who might wanna get a Dell...

Mine is a 4600 (so it doesnt have the integrated graphics card). It is a P4 2.8 Gig 512 Ram. It has a Geforce fx5200 128 card which I am told is not so great but it runs AFPD great except when I run smoke. Good enough for me! I get about 70 FPS on the photo real scenes while the 3D scenes are about 40-50 FPS.

Also, I looked at my setting screen and it says I have my card in a 8X AGP slot so it sounds like I could easily upgrade to the recommended Radeon 9800 down the road.

I thought is was a pretty good deal at $800....including 17 inch monitor and speakers, dvd and cdrw drives too...plus free shipping.