Hi

Our Dad is going to get my brother and I a P.C for our room, we intend to use it for online gaming eg. WoW and some FPS',downloading music and storing our music library. Our usage will be quite high and we are both pretty good gamers so I think we will need something midrange but nothing to flash because we still have school and sport. Dad agreed to get us the computer on the condition we do the research and find the P.C that can handle what we want to do without being overly expensive. Niether my brother or I are that flash when it comes to our computer knowledge but after searching online and doing some asking around we think a custom built P.C would meet our needs more so than a standard computer from a everyday retailer eg. Noel Leeming.

I think I have found two good computers to choose between:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 Ghz Processor
ASUS P5KPL/1600
4Gb DDR2 Ram
500 Gb Hard Disc Drive 7200Rpm
PCI-Express Geforce 9800gt 512mb
Windows Vista Home Premium

OR

Intel Dual Core 2.7Ghz Processor
4Gb DDR2 Ram
640 Gb
Geforce 9500gt 1gb
Windows XP


Do you think either of these sounds like what my bro and I are looking for? Is one significantly better than the other? If so why? Is one close but needs upgrading? Are they both useless?


If you can answer some of these questions and explain the reasoning behind your decision it might help us to understand what we need to look for and also help us explain to our Dad when we come to a decision and he has to hand over his $ :p

Any help or advice you can offer would be awesome

Thanks heaps

P.S Sorry for writing a novel, its just we are both really keen for a computer