Ha, well. tl;dr @ bottom
Of the four 2.2ghz processors you get, you, since you dont eitehr game or produce music/do heavy gfx editing(so i assume), will only able to use ONE core, maybe 2. It should be noted, in case you dont know, that 4 2.2ghz processors does not equal 8.8ghz, but 2.2ghz, period. Chances are you might be stepping BACK on the processing power you'll effectively use(because support for multicore processing is something that has to be hardcoded into a program, if the code is not there, no more than 1 processor will be used).
I would seriously not use that processor if i were you, considering you talked about wanting more processor power.
I recommend a Intel Core2Duo 3.2ghz processor, or even a singlecore 3+ghz processor, minimum. The 4 cores you most likely will NEVER use(heck, 4 cores have 2 caches, meaning if you render feks, music realtime, things will have to pass through 3 levels of cache to get to the proper area, meaning its bottlenecked to lag regardless of how many billion ghz you push into the processor).
The RAM should be plentiful. I run windows XP sp3 with 2gb ram(DDR3 1333mhz tho, but either way), and its plentiful for me. I work with music and load huge VST's and gunk into it, and ive so far only ran out of ram when trying to run games at stupidly high settings(i.e, above maximum, lolmods).
3GB should be plenty, and if not, ram is one of the cheapest upgrades nowadays, really.
The videocard, is.. pretty bad... Atleast from the looks of it.
Nvidia has the following system:
8500GT <-- = series, meaning yours is a 8, 9 is basically the same chipset(or so ive heard), so its the previous generation. I have one from the same generation, fyi. The latest generation is the 2XX generation, but its new as balls, priced so aswell.
8500GT <-- Internal series rank, where 800 is the highest(maybe 900, not sure), and 200 is the lowest, 500 is "inbetween", meaning it should be able to run games at low-medium settings, depending on how new they are ofcourse, the 200's are rubbish, steer clear, unless microsoft word is your most gfx heavy app.
8500GT <-- this, is the biggest thing to keep an eye out for. GT is the normal name, meaning its as it should be. GTX = pimped with overclocking and whatnot, a good choice, while GS, means "Grand Shit", pretty much rubbish. Stripped down and without features.
GT, is decent, but when put together with the 500, and that its not the 9 series, i doubt you'd be able to get much performance out of it. Especially with 256MB VRam.
Again, this depends on how much you use GFX heavy programs(Modern games, 3D Software, etc)
It's a pity they don't name the type or make of the Motherboard, as it pretty much decides what your upgrade options(if any at all) will be, Looking at it i can't really say it looks epic, but decent. A important notice is that you CANNOT use Intel Processors when its fitted with AMD chipset(as implied by the processor, lulz), so you're limited to AMD processors for the now. I don't have much experience with modern AMD's (had one ages ago, which got so hot it MELTED and fucking RUINED my Mobo, but they say they fixed that problem a long time ago so dont worry).
The soundcard looks like its internal with the mobo, can't say much about it really.
HDD is big and a normal speed is listed, so you wont run into problems there, methinks. Still it bugs me they don't name the makers of virtually half of whats listed.
Personally, i wouldnt have paid a penny over what you did, and i probably wouldn't have gotten it.
The thing is, it depends so much on how you plan on using it.
I paid $1100 for my computer, quite a class above yours in price, but i think i'd consider going up a notch in priceclass, and possibly buying the computer in parts and building it yourself(it's not that hard), you'll save cash on the labour and gunk they put in.
tl;dr:
-The processor will be insufficient if you want moar CPU powah(row row)
-GFX Card is weak, depending on what you want to use it for
-Rest should be fine
-What do you want to use it for?
Looks like they jacked up the price 100 bucks, I got this for $499 + $150 for 2 year warranty.
