I'd like to give a hypothetical to the more PC gamers.
I have always wanted a gaming PC, but honestly the PCs I have owned (and do own) tend to be pretty poor and anything released in past five years struggle on my current one (Guild Wars 2 was hilariously bad on it). I went to my friend's place this past Summer to see Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim with all these texture mods and my jaw dropped at how much better it looked.
Let us say I have a budget of $2,000 at some point in the year 2013. This would be for the following items.
1. A desktop computer (So, the processor, the motherboard, the video card, etc.)
2. A monitor
3. Mouse and Keyboard and likely some sort of gamepad
4. All assorted cables
Is this reasonable to play a recent game like Skyrim WITH all those fancy mods? If not, what would I be looking at? $3,000? $4,000?
Thank you for any help, my main hurdle to PC gaming has been not being familiar with building on. Go easy on me, I admit my ignorance on this aspect of gaming.
