We'd had our old desktop for 5 years, so it was time to upgrade. I found a one year old used PC on Craigslist that I negotiated down to $600, not bad for a Dell XPS8500 with a 3rd gen i7, 240GB SSD, 2TB HD, 32GB of RAM, BDRW and high end graphics card. I feel like I'm part of the 21st century again!