[PsYcNeT]

Unfortunately with the checksum dealie in the i7 chips, ram is tri-channel now, and no longer dual (which explains the 6 GB of DDR3).

To be honest though, T@T is right, 3 GB would be more than enough for anyone thats not a hardcore gamer (and even then should be sufficient). Unless you plan to do 3D modeling (ha! not with that video card) or video/audio rendering, 6 GB is major overkill.

A 360 watt PSU is awful.

You forgot to mention shipping costs.

And really, who the hell pays for Vista? The manufacturer gets it at OEM price and marks up your desktop. You are screwing yourself buying prebuilt just for this reason alone.

Honestly, build your own. They are giving you things you dont need (6 GB of ram, vista, works) and stuff that sucks (360 watt psu, lousy case).

Not to mention all prebuilts have a locked BIOS and theres no way you could ever modify/overclock/overvolt the thing.

You would essentially be limiting the power of the PC.

PS NCIX has awful pricing.

EDIT: As an addenum, the i7 chips arent all they're cracked up to be. They are costly, and you MUST use a never mobo, and MUST use DDR3

You could save literally 250$ by getting a q9450 (close in benchmarking to low end i7), 4 GB of DDR2 (> 100$ for pc-800 or >$150 for pc-1066), and a nice 775 based motherboard.

Really, theres no reason to buy an i7 for at least 6 months or more.