Firstly - a big hello to you all. Been a guest of these forums for some time, but never got round to registering.

I've picked up a few hints and tips from various users here to whom I am grateful.

These days though, I have little time to fiddle and make my own systems (4 hours a day commuting, plus a wife and 2 kids).

I am in need of an upgrade to my home computer, so am looking at buying a tower off the shelf from someone. As I have a 22" Iiyama monitor and a decent set of 5.1 speakers to tide me over till I can afford a new set, I just need a tower.

Best I found so far was from Alienware :

[1] Aurora™ 7500

Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
AlienRespawn: Alienware® Respawn Recovery Kit
Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case (480-Watt PS) - Conspiracy Blue
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 510 Express
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: Alienware® nForce™4 SLI™ Chipset Motherboard PCI Express
Memory: 1GB Alienware® Dual Channel Low-Latency DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
Graphics Processor: Dual NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GT PCI Express 128MB DDR3 with NVIDIA SLI Technology
Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Video Cooling: AlienIce™ 2.0 Video Cooling System - Fusion Red
System Drive: Extreme Performance - Serial ATA RAID 0 - 148GB (74GB x 2) Western Digital® Raptor™ 10,000 RPM w/16MB Cache
Optical Drive One: Lite-On® 16x DVD-ROM Drive with Software DVD Decoder
Optical Drive Two: NEC® ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Recorder
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)
Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet
Portable Storage : Alienware® 10-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer
Display One: No Monitor
Display Two: No Monitor
Keyboard: Microsoft® Basic Keyboard Black
Mouse: Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 - USB - Space Black
Alienware Exclusive Offers: Gamespot Complete - Free 90-day Trial (a $20.85 value)
Alienware Exclusive Offers: 10% off your next EB Games online purchase
Free Alienware T-Shirt: Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black
Free Alienware Mousepad: Free Alienware® Mousepad
Desktop Enhancements: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager
AlienInspection: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - $99.99 Value - FREE!
AlienWiring: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - $99.99 Value - FREE!

Now, I'm based in the UK, but will be travelling to the US on a business trip soon, so want to order this so I can pick it up from the office while I am there and bring it home with me. Cost is about $2600US, which equates to about £1500GB at current exchange.

Does anyone know of a better deal elsewhere?

I'm a gaming addict, so the faster the better

Thanks in advance