she wants over kill.
If she had $3000 to blow she would want even more.
When she 1st got her last computer I still lived with her and she was more of a computer use then even I was. I made me mad because she new more then me.
She never touched a computer in her life and she was writing webpages useing nothing more then Paint shop pro and note pad.
She wants to be like that again, but her computer kinda sucks now.
She will be coming into alot of money pretty soon. Most of it she will be useing to fix her house, but she is pulling some money aside for a pimped out computer and a dig-camcorder. The idea is spend it while she has it. She won't have money to waste on a computer for a long time after this, if ever at all.
So stop thinking that this is mass over kill "for right now". Will it be over kill in 2006? 07? 09?
If you had around $2000 and had to try to plan for 4-6 years from now... I think you might find yourself in my shoes.
As for her not being a gamer. This is only mostly true. She only plays cute fun 3d games. Frogger 3d, PacMan3d, so on and so forth. But if she found out that there are games that she can't play. She would be upset. (after spending this much, wouldn't you be upset even if you never used the gaming part?) So I picked a card that she could play doom 3 with, but wasn't over kill. I will look into that video card and think about it, but I'm already going over, so we will see.
Anywho, thanks again everyone for your input.