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The system that I guess you are referring to on the Dell site (the one for $999 or whatever) has a 7300 graphics card. This is very low end, and won't hold up too well for gaming. I would suggest you either get a nVidia 7900gs or ATI x1950pro if you want to use this thing for gaming, and want to get good resolution and most of the eye candy turned on. It also depends on what size monitor you intend getting. LCD's need to be run at their native resolution. If you are going for a 19inch, it will obviously need less performance than a 22inch with the same level of details turned on (due to the 22" having more pixels on the screen so more work from the graphics card)
E6300 is not a bad CPU and it can be overclocked substantially - but not on a dell. The dell bios revisions (at least the ones I have seen) don't have overclocking possibilities.
1 gig of RAM is sufficient if you are running XP. If you intend going Vista, get 2 gig.
HDD's are cheap - in Australia 320gig seems to be the sweet spot for price vs size. Seagate is a good one - the SATA II 320gig 7200.10 drive is very good.
Oh and another thing with Dell - they are fine if you want something that you are not going to add to or upgrade sigificantly etc. However if you are, be aware that they use non-standard motherboards and cases, so you can't swap in a different motherboard in a year or add better cooling (because - at least they used to - use different fan motherboard connectors than standard). You can add HDD's, graphics cards etc though.
I can't help with prices - prices are very different where I live.
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