Advice on gaming computer?

[DrG]

Advice you not to get too deeply into gaming.

Colossal waste of money and time.

As opposed to spending it on 3D movies in the theater?


I remember buying 16MBs of RAM for my 486 for $300 (the RAM was of questionable origin ahem).  Stuff will always be getting faster the second you buy it.  I would spend some of the budget on stuff that doesn't change too often like keyboard, mouse and sound.  Those 3 components are what you physically interact with.

[DolanDuck]

You should buy this for gaming purposes:

Intel Core i7-4960X LGA2011 Six-Core 15MB L3 3.6-4GHz
ASUS X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Ivy Bridge-E Ready ATX
G.Skill 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 2133MHz 1.6v
Three EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked 3GB 3-Way SLI
SAMSUNG 840 EVO 1TB SATA III SSD
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 5 yrs war. WD2003FZEX
ASUS SATA 24X DVD Burner
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W P2 80 PLUS Platinum Modular
Thermaltake Core V71 Extreme 3x200mm+1x140mm case fans
Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler
Sound Blaster Omni 5.1 USB Sound Card

[acs267]

You should be willing to spend a ton of money every few months for a new, faster graphics card if you're a hardcore gamer (such as me). I remember my old computer I made cost me 1K+. I ended up selling it for more, since I was constantly upgrading it.

[Cutie_Mari]

It depends if you want a desktop or a laptop. If you want a desktop you could spend between $1000 and $10000 if you buy it from any computer company, or you could try building one for $800 or a $1000 but that would requier you to get the parts yourself. In the other hand, if you want a good laptop, you could buy an alienware.

[cassimares]

So I have some money to spend on a gaming computer, just curious what the average cost would be.

I would be building this on my own, or just probably hire someone to do this.

About $700 you can get a good gaming gear. GTX 750ti is cheap