Building a 'Decent' Gaming PC

[Runewalker]

I am a serious online gamer and have built all of my PC's over the last few years with these type of games in mind. However I now want to build 2 identical PCs (kids play too) and am trying to decide which MOBO/Processor/Memory etc etc etc to buy.

I have been searching the net and mags trying to get ideas and seeing a forest of information. True this forum may provide the same barrage of info, but hopefully it will give me a guiding light as to which route to take.

I would appreciate anything you can offer. What I am looking for ideally is suggestions for the following:

Case
PSU
MOBO
Processor
Processor Cooling
RAM
Graphics Card

No doubt there are other things I have missed, but am thinking I can scavenge the rest from my existing PCs.

Waiting in dread & anticipation....

 

[TehBestEver]

What is your budget?

 

[RicoDirenzo]

Check out my sig and the sigs of others. My machine is $1100 complete and it smokes!!

 

[TehBestEver]

Yea, but I would look at AMD dual cores. The X2 or opty's are both good chips. My X2 runs great! The computer I built I think costs around $1200. A graphics card such as the 7900GT is pretty powerful and should run all the current games on high depending on the other computer components.

 

[TehBestEver]

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136151

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231034

Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130281

Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817171009

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119074


All together that should cost $1186.97 plus shipping and tax. Maybe around $1300. And you may want to add a sound card in there. For around $70 (plus shipping and tax) you can get the Audigy2 ZS.

 

[Runewalker]

WOW - Great suggestions

Great guys. You have confirmed alot of what I was getting tugged towards. The only downside I need to find a different supplier...Newegg doesnt deliver to UK, but i can work that out. Going to do some UK online supplier searches and see how things progress. I really appreciate the info.

I wasn't too worried about a budget (wife has other ideas) but these number figure quite well even over here...)

Again thanks.