Help picking a good gaming comp!

[unlovedwarrior]

my bad for the bad link, ill remove it

[ZealEmpire]

I have an on the side pc repair business.  90 percent of my customers use HP...the other 1 percent I see with problems alot are HP.  Im not trying to say every HP is junk.  But the better choice for gaming is Dell.  They are just a better designed system with alot less headaches.  Dell makes some nice rigs now specialized for gaming.  

[Nitro]

Dell makes some nice rigs now specialized for gaming.  

Called Alienware?

If you can, build a pc yourself, Its very easy to do and you can save yourself tons of money, You also get the exact spec you want.

[muls357]

I personaly would go wtih a DELL Xp my friend has one it works great. The widescreen moniter is beautiful with the sound blaster and speakers its great.

[ZealEmpire]

Dell makes some nice rigs now specialized for gaming.  

Called Alienware?

If you can, build a pc yourself, Its very easy to do and you can save yourself tons of money, You also get the exact spec you want.

Well of course Alienware is wonderful...But not everyone has the money for one of those    

[Sinkhan]

Actually that guide isn't too bad. The information is quite good, but I'd like to make a few notes:

First of all, skip the first little blurb and go straight to the "Piecing it Together" section

Processor:The bits I'd change here are replacing the P4 with a Pentium D and the EE with the Core 2 Duo [smiley=thumbsup.gif] For the AMD, FX-60.

Memory: 1GB is about the current standard and not so much the 'preferred' level, but in about 6 months especially with the release of Vista, 1.5Gb or 2Gb might be the norm. (And get dual-channel if possible. BTW, what are some other really good forms/technologies for RAM?)

Video Card: Anything with 256MB on-board, 3D support. Recommended cards are the ATI x1600 Pro or nVidia 7900 GT. SLI is also good.

Hard Disk: 80-500GB or even more depending on what you're using it for. (If you're getting something above 300, consider RAID). Make sure it has SATAII or if you really want it, SCSI.

Sound: That part of the guide is alright to me. Sound technologies never have to be THAT awesome to fully enjoy your gaming experience.

Disc Drives: Looks ok too.

Monitor: Good too. 1000:1 is a pretty decent resolution for LCDs

The Rest: Good.

Hope this helps.

[Neil]

I think the original poster is long gone.

[GX1_Man]

I don't blame him.  

[honvetops]

Here's 20,600,000 links that may help your quest:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+choose+gaming+computer

And a good one to start with:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/gamingpcs.mspx

 :-? the sarcasm is killing me ~  rofl