I work for the University of Wisconsin, and I was told that they offer a very good deal to students as well staff on Dell PC's. After looking into what they had to offer, it seems to be a very good deal indeed.
Here are the major specs's of what I put together.
Dell Optiplex GX620 MiniTower
Intel? Pentium? 4 Processor 650 with HT (3.4GHz, 2M, 800MHz FSB)
Windows? XP Professional, SP2, with Media
2.0GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM,533MHz, (2DIMM) upgradeable to 4 GB (4 slots)
PCIe 128MB ATI Radeon X600SE (1 DVI/1 TV-out), full height
160GB SATA, 7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB Data Burst Cache?
16X DVD+/-RW and 16X DVD w/Sonic? and Cyberlink Power DVD?
3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year NBD On-Site Service
No Monitor. I already have one
I plan on adding a WD Raptor 10000 RPM SATA 36 GB as a scrach disk. I also plan on adding a external HD for storage and back up when I have the cash.
Because this was a Special Promotion, I'm somewhat limited as to what components are available for customization. One disappointment was that the Pentium D was not on the customization list. The above is what I selected, and comes to about $1100.00 Let me know what you all think. Also, if anyone has used this PC for photo editing, how well did work for you?