I like AMD 6 core processors over Inter "i" series b'coz they are more than enough to play 2 games at once, open heavy programmes like Photoshop CS5, have multiple browsers open and other stuff simultaneously, In short "heavy duty multitasking" for less than half the price of Intel processors, so i'd advice you to go for an assembled PC....You could make better use of that money on a better graphics card, RAM or any other peripheral.