[Jason1]

Great links and good advice guys. Sounds like we are going to attempt the quick fix on the computer we have now and hopefully get another 6 months to a year out of it. My Dad says he will have more bills paid off by then and might even be willing to spend more at this time.

And yea i'm sure the way those 2 computers are would be fine for my Dad, but like I said I might want to be using it to play something like Portal 2 at some point down the road, depending on when I actually do move out of the house and get a desktop of my own, so I dont want whatever we end up getting to be a total slouch either.