So I am in the process of determining how much money I need to start saving in order to purchase my new gaming rig. I have gotten advice from several people about budget. When I ask about price, it varies between $1000 and $1500. What is your opinion on how much I should spend?

I am planning on buying a new monitor, keyboard, and mouse considering I need the present ones for the computer I am on now.

It really depends on if you are going to go with a computer company like Dell or go with just buying the parts and building it from a site like newegg.com.

If you have the experience where you feel comfortable building it yourself, you will save a lot of money.

Do you know how much processing power, memory, graphics, hdd, etc. you want?

AJ

I am planning on purchasing the computer in parts and building it myself. I plan on purchasing the rig in December when the new Nvidia 9800 comes out .... so the price of the 8800 GT drops. I plan on purchasing 2 gigs of ram, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, and aim for a hard drive of atleast 500GB.

I plan on purchasing the computer via CyberPower, Inc - building the best Gaming PC is not only our profession, it is our obsession.

OK. Then plan on spending over $1000. It's going to be closer to $1500. I've never used that site before, but it looks like they have some good deals. Also look at newegg.com...I really like them and use them all the time.

Good luck.

AJ

Thanks I will look into Newegg