Gaming PC help

I've been wanting to get a good gaming PC for quite a while now but have only just got the money to afford one. I've been researching into building one but im struggling to comprehend just about everything, so i'm asking for some help. I want my rig to be able to play anything from this generation of games on high with no problem. So if anyone could recommend me exactly what i need to buy or just a good pre built rig. As far as how much money i want to spend there's no limit but obviously the cheaper the better. Thanks

just find a pc with good bones for like 400-500.....great processor quad core preferably and at least 4gb ddr3 ram. pay attention to watt of the power supply high end graphics card need usually more than 350w. buy a graphics card with at least 1gb of ram and just buy something that says can play battlefield 3 on high. thats a good barometer. spend 125-200 on gcard.

Do you want to build it yourself? What is your budget? Do you need a Monitor? Keyboard? Mouse?

at least thats what i did over a year and a half ago. battlefield 3 plays great.

If you have no idea what you are doing do that as a baby step forward. Most of the major components will be there installed for you already. SO you won't need to worry about damaging components through ESD, etc or deal with learning what parts are compatible with what or customizing pieces for maximum performance. I've been building them since I was 10(1990) but I understand that the new generation has been more interested in using technology and less interested in learning how things work.

Oh, if you go balls deep and actually do it. Welcome to the Master Race.

Would this build do the trick?

@bwooduhs said:

Would this build do the trick?

CPU	AMD FX-6100 Six-Core 3.3GHz 14MB Socket AM3+
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 PC10666/1333MHz CL9 2x4GB (F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL)
Hard Drive	Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA3 6.0Gb/s 3.5' Internal Hard Drive
Optical Drive	Lite-On SATA DVDRW iHAS324 Super 24x DVD CD Writer
Motherboard	Asus M5A97 AMD 970 ATX motherboard RAID USB3.0 SATA3 CrossfireX
Video Card	Power Color HD7850 2GB 860MHz/1200MHzX4 256bit DVI/HDMI/DP
Computer Case	COOLER MASTER CM690 II ADVANCED MID TOWER Pure Black
Power Supply	Thermaltake Litepower 700W PSU W0356

CPU: Go Intel. AMD doesn't have any offerings that can touch the rather old i5 2500k, which is sub $200, let alone Intel's high end offerings.

Hard drive: Spend the extra few bucks and get the WD Black.

Motherboard: It'll cost quite a bit more for an Intel based board over an AMD one. Still, for gaming, I'd rather have a i5 or i7 than any CPU offerings from AMD.

Power Supply: You don't want to cheap out on this. If it goes, it may take other components with it. PC Power and Cooling or Corsair, which I believe just rebadges PC Power and Cooling PSU's.

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Enthusiast-Certified-Performance-CP-9020003-NA/dp/B005E98FVS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1339634517&sr=8-4

I wanted an affordable, light and powerful gaming laptop for college and bought a 14'' Lenovo Ideapad Y470 for 900$ new on their own website. It plays nearly everything on high this gen -- well the few taxing games that are actually worth it anyway, such as Skyrim, Civ 5, Deus Ex HR etc...

Can't be too hard to find a good desktop at that price.

@Zelyre said:

@bwooduhs said:

Would this build do the trick?

CPU	AMD FX-6100 Six-Core 3.3GHz 14MB Socket AM3+
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 PC10666/1333MHz CL9 2x4GB (F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL)
Hard Drive	Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA3 6.0Gb/s 3.5' Internal Hard Drive
Optical Drive	Lite-On SATA DVDRW iHAS324 Super 24x DVD CD Writer
Motherboard	Asus M5A97 AMD 970 ATX motherboard RAID USB3.0 SATA3 CrossfireX
Video Card	Power Color HD7850 2GB 860MHz/1200MHzX4 256bit DVI/HDMI/DP
Computer Case	COOLER MASTER CM690 II ADVANCED MID TOWER Pure Black
Power Supply	Thermaltake Litepower 700W PSU W0356

CPU: Go Intel. AMD doesn't have any offerings that can touch the rather old i5 2500k, which is sub $200, let alone Intel's high end offerings.

Hard drive: Spend the extra few bucks and get the WD Black.

Motherboard: It'll cost quite a bit more for an Intel based board over an AMD one. Still, for gaming, I'd rather have a i5 or i7 than any CPU offerings from AMD.

Power Supply: You don't want to cheap out on this. If it goes, it may take other components with it. PC Power and Cooling or Corsair, which I believe just rebadges PC Power and Cooling PSU's.

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Enthusiast-Certified-Performance-CP-9020003-NA/dp/B005E98FVS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1339634517&sr=8-4

You really want to make sure your PSU is 80 Plus certified, brand is not as big of a difference as most have a similar standard. As for everything else, Its not a bad set up. The AMD vs Intel debate will go on forever, however the FX-6100 is a great processor, very comparable to the 2500K, and may actually have better overclocking. Plus if your paring with a AMD Graphics Card, the options for AMD's Overdrive system can really help if you get into the overclocking and enthusiast end of PC gaming.

ncix.com - tell them your budget and what you want to be able to do with it and they'll whip up a build for you to look over and purchase if you like it. That's the best thing for someone who isn't familiar with the fine details of computer gaming to do, I think. NCIX are great, I've bought 2 computers and some upgrade parts from them over the last 4 years and I've never had a problem. In fact when I got my new computer earlier this week it came with an extra keyboard.. I emailed them about it and they said keep it. Can't go wrong with that. They have some awesome deals regularly too, can't say enough good things.

CPU- AMD Athlon II X4 640

RAM- 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz

Motherboard- BIOSTAR Group A780L3B

Graphics- AMD Radeon HD 6770

This is what I have. It runs BF3, Skyrim, The Witcher 2 and Diablo 3 on high without a problem.