If all you do is just web surfing, words, excel, email, chat, mp3, movies, then I would think that combo is decent enough. Keep in mind that the motherboard Fry's usually give you for these kinds of low priced combos are by ECS. They're pretty much the bottom of the motherboard chain, I mean, you may have difficulties finding an ECS motherboard that isn't returned. They're not easy to work with either, they tend to use the traditional 'jumper' settings for a few options. But if you're moderately knowledgable in building computers, you shouldn't have too big of a problem.