Really all you need to concentrate on is the Processor speed and ram (the more the better of course) and make sure to get either USB 2.0 or Firewire ports on the PC and use an audio interface as your soundcard..
Do you have an audio interface?
Do you have studio monitors?
What kind of setup do you have now as far as audio equipment is concerned?
Your going to want to have a big hard drive, especially if you are going to start doing anything involving WAV files (i.e. recording and sampling) 200g or more..
Right now im actually using an EMachines and as cheap as the computer may be, It runs very well.. I've got an AMD Athlon 64 bit processor, 2.4 ghz. 200g harddrive and 2 gigs of ram in it.. using an M-Audio Ozone as my audio interface (replacing the sound card). I record in protools as well as work in reason, and my hard drive is about to be full soon.. I plan on getting a terabyte (1,000 gigs) external drive soon.
I have a custom computer a friend gave me with a dual core pentium processor overclocked to about 4ghz (per processor) and i just ordered 4 gigs of ram for it.. so im hoping the thing is going to work out.. I have yet to turn it on LOL but if i get that thing booted up, its gonna be a beast! with 8 fans on it, it wont be the quietest computer, but man will it be fast! haha.
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