Dude, you could easilly get MUCH better for a lower price.

You should go with an i7 920 D0 Stepping with watercooling, an eVGA x58 Classified mother board, some 1000W PSU, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, SSDs or Velociraptor in RAID0 or just some normal 7200 RPM 1TB in RAID0 too. And you could do a SLI of GTX 285 or just take the GTX295 (or SLI the GTX295 if you want).

All that, plus a case and shipping and a 25.5-26" monitor should cost you about 2700-2800$ (with taxes and shipping) and performance-wise, beats the living crap out of that 3300$ PC you are currently looking for.

^ will that have blu ray and 1080p I dont know much about comps but that seems to be a major selling point. but nevermind me I got a mac....

it would have more like 1920x1200 resolution and you can add a blu-ray if you want. I just built a PC like that and it costed me 2400$ (including taxes and shipping), but I didnt go for blu-ray and only took one GTX 295 since I'm not rich. I still have watercooling to buy.

I'm thinking he wants a no hassle, already built All-In-One computer with customer support and no installing Windows trouble.

It's the All-in-One option that makes it so expensive, a normal desktop would be much cheaper from Sony, Dell, or HP with comparable specs.

You can buy from NCIX and just add 50$ and its all built and tested.

It still wouldn't be an all in one regardless of specs. Everyone who's recently built a system knows how much one could build for $3,300, and yes it would be a monster gaming machine.

Bottom line is this: no all in one is ideal for gaming, and next to none of them are "good" for gaming relative to the premium cost one pays.

A 512MB 9600GT (I'm assuming non upgradable which is often the case with all in one designs) is at the bottom of current decent 3D gaming graphics performance. Essentially it's a sub $100 VGA card for a $3,300 system. Naturally, the emphasis for an all in one media PC is not 3D gaming.

I use a 1GB 9600GT myself with my general use media PC and it plays all recent games acceptably today (not at max settings for all games at 1680x1050), but I have a hard time seeing myself using the same video card in another 1-2 years at the very most.

If you spend $3,300 on a PC, I'm assuming it's one you're planning on keeping for a bit longer than 1-2 years, which will have minimal upgrade options as an all in one system.


That being said, the Vaio is unquestionably a premium system with solid specs all around and most likely has a gorgeous display to top it off. The built in panel itself would cost a premium if purchased separately.

I just wouldn't buy a premium all in one if one of the main uses was to be gaming unless the VGA card was upgradable and the PSU could support something like a GTX285 or even a GTX295 or HD4870x2 (highly unlikely).

For the love of god don't buy that, unless you're absolutely in love with the concept of an all-in-one, and want to spend probably triple the cost of what the parts would normally be in order to get one.

You could easily build something better for substantially cheaper, as everyone else has pointed out so far.

To answer your question directly, and not just say 'build your own.' This site lists the video card as a nVidia GeForce 9600M GT. That is decent. I have a similar card. You can definitely play all the new games, but don't expect max. You will not be playing games at 1080p.

"The system's 512MB nVidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics card is good enough for medium-level 3D gaming."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331997,00.asp

Aside from the video card everything else looks great.

If you want to waste your money go for it. A 9600GT is a huge ripoff for the price your paying. The card is old as hell and if i'm dropping $3300 on a desktop then i better be getting a GTX295 easily. 8 gigs of RAM is major overkill, are you going to be doing video editing on it?

You can get a blu-ray drive for your PC for under $80 now.

Why pay Mac prices for something which isn't a Mac?