wow 8GB and a 8400GS... Your set for some hardcore gaming....
lol
imo.... this company is just a little money monger looking to maximize profits. With the price of memory nowadays, they probably have a huge surplus of memory, they pack every machine full of it and then hook you up with a 8400GS... And slap the name ELITE PRO on it.
8gigs is overkill unless your going to be running a server and what MH said above me. 4 gigs is eh unless you get 64bit version of windows. if im not mistaken 32 bit only recognizes 3.2 gigs
He said he is upgrading it to a HD4850.
I think 8GBs of RAM is overkill, even if you are doing video editing or lots of graphics work. I use a massive amount of graphics with photoshop, illustrator, 3ds max etc and I have never been near the limit with 4GBs.
I would get 4GBs of ram and use the extra money to get a HD4870 if I were you.
but still..... it is a ripoff. I know he was changing the GPU.
I would not pay that much for a computer just to turn around and upgrade the GPU...
think about it.