If there is one thing I have learned in this business its that retail is a thing of the past and brand names carry a price tag all by themselves. I decided to my computer system but really did not want to dump $1000 plus in order to get decent storage and speed. I was directed to Tiger Direct. I purchased a package deal consisting of a case, 500 gb hard drive, motherboard, 3 gb memory, and more. The price…$399! Even more amazingly was that I had never played around with computer hardware and yet I had the computer together in 1 hour!! Since this purchase I have purchased a second kit for $499 consisting of 8 gb of ram and 500 gb hard drive. If you are looking to upgrade I highly recommend you check out Tiger Direct first.