curiously sky rocketed in recent years. There is no point going after the most powerful machine capable if it's mostly just going to go to waste, for this reason I suggest custom built PCs are the way to go as you can have the exact specs and brands you want in your machine meaning tasks can run smoothly without wasting resources. Being someone who enjoys playing video games as well as maintaining an archive of television series, I look for a computer to be good at pretty much everything. The RAM, processor, video card, motherboard, etc. must all be up to standard. However, I'm currently using an external hard drive which I bought when I had a low hard-drive capacity laptop, so currently the size (but not speed) of the hard drive isn't a priority for me. Since you are pretending to be intel, I will tell you what I look for in a processor (mainly) Processor I don't want an FSB I want straight numbers Speed per core Overall speed I want straight numbers on old processors I want a fast processor, lots of Cache, etc. etc. Point in case, I need to be able to compare one processor apples to apples against another General I Don't want an intel graphics card. I have one and I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Your terrible graphics cards have completely turned me off from your company. I will NOT buy another intel based machine. AMD