Actually building is great if you can and know how if not go with a gaming rig with a couple of video cards in sli and a quad core cpu 4 gigs of ram and stick with xp as an operating system til windows 7 is released.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9081325&type=product&id=1218017465909
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8808294&type=product&id=1206142366661
then get a 22in monitor
I would get the 1st computer well actually I just built a amd 5600 dualcore with a 9800gtx 512 mb card and 2 gigs of ram for $400.00 but the ths one has way more cpu and a great gpu too.







