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Garcian Smith on 25 January 2010
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Khuutra said:
jefforange89 said:

What're you planning on doing with it, just for email/web/office/etc. or for gaming, or video editing or something as well?

Also, what price are you looking at?

Gaming

She said to me, two grand, but I think I want to aim for more like 1500 including monitor and OS

The "more power" build in the OP will give you the best high-end price:performance ratio for your money in terms of gaming, and probably only cost around $1200-$1300 with Windows 7 and a decent monitor. Anything more than that is just wasted money. Otherwise, if you want to save even more, you can buy mid-range + OS + monitor for about $1000 and put the rest of your money away for upgrades a couple of years down the line.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom