Q: it needs to be under 1500 dollars for a moniter and eveything else. It needs to have good graphics, load web pages fast, play games and stuff a good basic computer. and is the HP pavilion media center m9340f a good computer?
A: If you want good graphics then it is very important to get a computer with a dedicated graphics card and not an integrated one.It should also have 512 mb of ram or more on the video card and it should be GDDR3 type of ram on it(like the Nvidia GeForce 8800GT). For the system ram,it should have 3 or more GB of DDR3 ram.Not DDR2 but you might have to settle. Processor should be either Dual or Quad core and be at least 2.6 GHZ speed(you can find speed of the cpu by clicking the logo in bottom left and in the start search area type in "Dxdiag" without the quotes and hitting enter it'd towards the bottom where it says processor). The computer you found is ok,but you could go to best buy and prolly find a better one on sale.The graphics card is dedicated but it's kind of slow so here's some charts that will show you which cards are the best because its confusing if you don't know what any of it is. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards/3dmark06-v1-0-2-hdr-sm3-0-score,538.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vga-charts-vii,1070-7.html Wile you can build a computer with all that in it easily for under $1,500 dollars.It will be hard to find just buying one so here's the order of importance for what you want. 1- Graphics card. The higher up on the list from those links from above, the better. 2- Ram and Ram type/speed. If you cant find one with DDR3 then try to find 800mhz speed DDR2(m9340f has 800mhz DDR2) 3-Processor speed and type. Get dual core or quad core. Quad is a bit better than Dual core and faster speed the better. 4-Hard drive- however big you need it to be and make sure its a Sata drive and not IDE. That should load you up with a lot of info to help you pick a nice one, and remember that unless your going to play games on this, You wont need near as good of stuff.