Looking for a new tower

[[JiF]major confusion]

OK I've got $1200 burning a hole in my pocket. What do I buy to get a decent pc for gaming but still have some of the other bells and whistles.

Thanks!

[[JiF]phantomx]

you looking at building your own or an off the shelf product? Are you looking for something that can play what is out there or for what might be coming?

wish I could transfer my peanuts into real cash so I could look for an upgrade too.

[[JiF]major confusion]

i'm not in to building, so I guess it would be what's out there off the shelf now.

[[JiF]Brick]

If you don't want to get a kit, check out some of the preconfigured models at tigerdirect.com

Recommendations:
Hi End video card (so many options and prices for gaming)
as many "cores" as you can afford processor, Win 7 64 bit O/S
SSD Drive
16GB Ram


oops, I just blew the budget

[[JiF]BloodGod]

Nice little set-up, for an off the shelf

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883227440" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[[JiF]major confusion]

Thanks Blood. I was actually looking at this one.

[[JiF] General WarHawk]

I've seen some very nice gaming rigs for sale on Ebay. They start low, but bid 500 right off the bat, cause that's about what they go for. Usually they top at $790. Myself if I had a lot of green, I'd go to Falcon Northwest and spend $35,000 for their most insane piece of equipment. I'm waiting for them to make Johnny #5 next.

[[JiF]major confusion]

Ok after some deliberations, I am building my own tower.
My computer savvy nephew was a wealth of knowledge and will assist me. Here's was was bought:

Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637i53570

EVGA 02G-P4-2670-KR GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM

CORSAIR Professional Series HX650 650W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

GIGABYTE GA-H77-DS3H LGA 1155 Intel H77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GSR

Rosewill LINE ATX Mid Tower Computer Case,one USB 3.0,come with Three Fans,Support up to 7 Fans

LG Black 10X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal 12X Blu-ray Combo Drive Model UH12NS29 - OEM

The purchase of the video card comes with Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III Games.

And of course Battlefield 3 has already been purchased.

Got everything for about $1220.00 thanks to the deals at Newegg.

Thank you Santa and of course Mrs Confusion who got sick of hearing me cuss at my old pc.

The packages are already starting to come in!!!

Bill/Major Confusion

[[JiF]Brick]

Very Nice!

I'd still get a Small SSD drive for your boot partition
Incredible performance increase, and makes for real fast boot time

What O/S you going to load?

[[JiF]major confusion]

Windows 7 Home Premium

[[JiF]FrenchAfroman]

very nice

[[JiF]major confusion]

OMG! I'm still putting together my programs (Battlefield is next), but holy @#$% ^&*##$ %^&*!!!
I play Nascar 2003 by Papyrus and my frame-rate went from 40 fps to about 140 fps with my new system.

[[JiF]phantomx]

nice rig

[[JiF][AARP]Tissueman]

OMG! I'm still putting together my programs (Battlefield is next), but holy @#$% ^&*##$ %^&*!!!
I play Nascar 2003 by Papyrus and my frame-rate went from 40 fps to about 140 fps with my new system.

Wow! That is great.