I'm going to be the unpopular one here. I bought my PC stock from Dell for around 600 bucks. I use it to play Guild Wars 2, Day Z and the Left 4 Dead games. It also runs Star Wars: TOR, WoW and a bunch of other random steam titles. I have not played Skyrim, the most graphically intense thing I ran was Saints Row the Third.
I build my first computer out of high school, and its kind of a nightmare if you don't have someone working with you the whole time if you're inexperienced. After the 2 years of working on my machine I bought my first Dell and never looked back.
That said, I'm not an avid full time PC gamer, I also have my X360 and my PS3. For my 600 bucks though I got a pretty decent PC with tons of RAM and a pretty good graphics card. For me it was worth it just to buy it and plug and play I don't have time to tinker like I used to. Building your own PC can be extremley rewarding if you know what you're doing, but I was looking for a time saver.
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