If I'm reading it right, the motherboard supports dual-core CPUs. I just checked with my local shop, and they don't yet offer any pre-builts with dual-core CPUs. Besides, even if they did I'm looking at about a $200 price increase if I went with dual-core. I can hardly justify that with my budget in mind. I suppose it's something I can upgrade to down the road when dual-cores get a bit cheaper.
The video card is my only real concern, as I just noticed that Sapphire doesn't seem to make a 256MB X550 PCI-E. It looks like the only configurations are 64MB or 128MB. I'm sure it's not something shady on my shop's part, but I'll have to ask them about this discrepancy. If worse comes to worst I'll just ask if I can upgrade that part to a X600Pro (which does come in a 256MB flavour). The difference in price will only be about $25, assuming they will do that with a pre-built system.
The video card is my only real concern, as I just noticed that Sapphire doesn't seem to make a 256MB X550 PCI-E. It looks like the only configurations are 64MB or 128MB. I'm sure it's not something shady on my shop's part, but I'll have to ask them about this discrepancy. If worse comes to worst I'll just ask if I can upgrade that part to a X600Pro (which does come in a 256MB flavour). The difference in price will only be about $25, assuming they will do that with a pre-built system.