For those who want a 1k build to play high end games this will work

Ok it's simple what you want to do is go to Ibuypower.com

Choose the Amd Athlon 64 X-2 configurator

Just take the Eagle Tech Side winder case it'll suffice

Go with the standard case power supply

Take the AMD Athlon 64 X-2 6000

Take the 790X cross fire mobo (the chipset on the mobo enhances speed and visuals for Ati Cards)

Take the Ati Radeon HD 3870 512 MB GDDR4 VRAM (SPEED/Performance)

Take 2 Gb's of RAM (that's all you'll need for a while)

Take the 160 GB HD and the standard Dual CD/DVD RW

Go with the speakers the keyboard and mousethat are originally selecteddon't change em if you want to keep the budget

Take windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit

You get a 3 year limited warranty and lifetime technical support (wow wayyyy better than Dell)

Now buy a 20" Acer LCD Monitor off of Newegg for $180

You have everything you need within 1k.

The motherboard has an extra slot if you want to go cross fire*note you do not need identical cards when using cross fire unlike SLI

For instance a nice cheap upgrade you could do after a while you decide that you may want to upgrade youur computer even further with your next pay check to go from High to Very High on Crysis.

That's a can do.

Go to newegg purchase another 3870 or a 3850 for an upgrade.

Install em for a 3850 it'll cost an extra $130 for 3870 $230

You will need a new power supply no sweat

There's a 750 W thermaltake Cross Fire support PSU that costs $190 but will do the trick

that's more than enough power for 2 55nm cards.

Either you can add the 3850 with Psu it will cost an extra 320 that will last you a while

or the 3870 which will costa toal arround 420 that is an upgrade that will last you for a long time as well and play crysis on highsest settings for the most part. You'll have to lower the AA and AF just a bit but it justifies it for paying a toal of 1,420 bucks and you get a PC that can handler todays and even tommarows demanding games.

sry i lost you when you said ibuypower.com worst place to buy computers and has the worst techical support of all many people have bought stuff that came with cass with huge dents DOA mobos, rams, powersupplys, the works

sry this thread is a faliure

just build it your self and that $1k will turn into $800 or so.

Lol really? But most people aren't willing to go through all the work of building the PC from scratch it'sa good alternative and no it's not a failureYahiko182

True that most people aren't willing to build a PC...but on this forum, you can bet that most of us are more for building our own machines.

maybe you but IMHO its a good feeling to know you built your own computer like its yours you build that beast...you know but i guess its not for you..

switch ibuypower to avadirect.com and i guess its ok

you have to admit it's way better than DELL when it comes down to performance

you have to admit it's way better than DELL when it comes down to performance

Yahiko182

well duh but who said anything about buying from dell in the first place

I would like to build from scratch but most people are lazy and it seemed like a good alternativeYahiko182

I definitely agree with you there (about the laziness), but the PC Hardware forum isn't the best place for it. Try sneaking this in the general games discussion...

iBuyPower = Epic Fail,if you must get prebuilt,get AVADirect,heck i believe even Dell is better than iBuyPhail in reliability (Don't quote me on this or flame me)

Is this an advertisement?

For $1000, it isn't bad (assuming you put a 3870 in there).

Unfortunately most people buy from dell and get swindled when it comes to performance. You can bet that if Dell sold a computer to these specs it would cost over 3kYahiko182

Lol really? But most people aren't willing to go through all the work of building the PC from scratch it'sa good alternative and no it's not a failureYahiko182

I would like to build from scratch but most people are lazy and it seemed like a good alternativeYahiko182

might as well get windows vista 64 bit. its the new thing