HP Pavilion p7-1235 Desktop w/ AMD A8-5500 Quad Core $449.99 w/ Free Shipping at Amazon (No Tax In Many States)

Most are 3.4GHz out of the box after you tweak it changing power settings and system changes.

Gotta choose amazon.com from other buying choices & "Usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks."

Quote from tipstir : Most are 3.4GHz out of the box after you tweak it changing power settings and system changes.

How is the system tweaked?

Quote from saltysailor : How is the system tweaked?

Just minor tweaks like telling the system to use all 4 processors and telling power that you don't want to 1/2 power you want high power. The rest I use my windows 64-bit app Jasper for TCP NIC changes which is free by-the-way on WMTZ Forums also ToolWiz also free program not by me though, but it's free. System boots up at 55% I trying to get it at 75% but I see what's causing that issue HP Assistant and SPDF..

Quote from method : Gotta choose amazon.com from other buying choices & "Usually ships within 2 to 4 weeks."

Hope these use FEDEx on yours instead of UPS seems to ding boxes. FEDEx drivers care more.. Knock on the door or ring the bell. UPS drops and runs..

Quote from saltysailor : How is the system tweaked?

Remove all the bloatware HP sticks on there, and you won't need any fancy overclocking.

Don't need to OC these systems..

Computer is really nice. I have a Core i5 M480 2.67GHz laptop with 8Ghz of RAM as my only comparison and this HP with 16gb of RAM just screams. After 45 minutes removing HP bloatware.