Ok, i have been wanting a gaming computer for a long butt time and now is better then any to get one. Anyway, what good systems are out there which are under $1,300? Please help.
Dunno. There was an ad at the top of the forums once. You could try refreshing until it shows up.
Moving to Comp. Gaming...
well, if you know allot about computers try not to buy a pre built one (normally companies put in a horrible motherboard with low FSB) if you budget is $1300 this will surely fit into there. you will have the sweetest butt computer if you get the following
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nVidia chipset GIGABYTE 800 fsb motherboard (make sure the socket type of motherboard matches your processor)
AMD 3400+ or AMD 3700+ (i recomend the 3700+ with socket 939 there slightly faster than 754, but nothing too noticable)
120 gig samsung HDD (there really quiet i had to open case and put my ear to it to listen to it work)
www.zalmanusa.com look at there CPU fans there quite elegant
with 800FSB on your motherboard your northbridge will be melting, go from passive northbridge cooling to a fan chipset cooler. (i recomend the TITAN chipset cooler)
nVidia video card to match mobo and processor, GeForce BFG series just came out a while back, i suggest a 300 dollar nVidia Geforce card other anything ATI (ahhaha) makes
kingston always made best ram to me, see if you can find PC3100 dual channel 512's if not a 1 gig stick will do almost as good.
finally Antec 430 or 450 watt power supply, with that AMD 3400+, 3700+ you will definantly need or 430 or a 450 (im snaking away with a 350 for now but its a good brand) if you wanna go with a 500 watt, make sure you get a good brand (Antec)
well that should be it (the video card is AGP if your interested in PCI express look into it, THERE FREAKIN AWSOME FOR GREFICS, what is above will run doom3 on ultra at about 60 fps, high at 120 fps. HL2 will be like "what the heck? this computer kicks butt" and will absolutly have no problem. why did i type all of this...i have no girlfreind :)
cheers this is a great computer