What parts should I get for a gaming PC?

[Saber15]

Never tried them. They any good? I usually go GeForce.

i managed to get a full thirty frames per second on opposing force with my voodoo

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[keonesan]

i managed to get a full thirty frames per second on opposing force with my voodoo

Hot dam that's fast. /sarcasm

[Soviet]

500-800 bucks.

Judging by your budget and need for a gaming PC, I recommend an AMD based PC. This way you'll be spending less on the processor and motherboard, and you can have more money going to a high end video card.

This is just at the top of your budget, but it will do everything and more that you intend to do.

AMD Phenom II X4 955BE 3.2GHz 6MB L3 125W Quad-Core
http://bit.ly/d78nIx

ASRock EXTREME3: AM3 770 SATA6Gb/s USB3.0 ATX
http://bit.ly/aSm7yH

GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600MHz CAS 9 1.5v
http://bit.ly/hf9E1u

MSI GeForce GTX 460 1GB Hawk Talon Attack
http://bit.ly/aVVrLk

Samsung F3 1TB SATA II 3.0Gb/s
http://amzn.to/Samsung_F3_1TB

ASUS SATA 24X DVD Burner
http://bit.ly/bLit9j

Antec BP550 Plus 550W 80 PLUS Certified Modular
http://bit.ly/5SfOPQ

NZXT TEMPEST EVO 4 x 120mm 2 x 140mm
http://bit.ly/91tPpp

Zalman CNPS10X Performa CPU Cooler
http://amzn.to/9K9YtJ

Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound
http://amzn.to/eLAqA0

The CPU fan I added will be excellent if you intend to over-clock.

[keonesan]

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Oh dam I was wrong. You can build a good computer for that cheap.

Only issue is, is that one of those parts are sold out.

[Soviet]

Oh dam I was wrong. You can build a good computer for that cheap.

Only issue is, is that one of those parts are sold out.

Well he mentioned a few weeks, so luckily it will be in-stock by then.

[Sicarius]

What OS should I get?

[Bisjac]

start by telling us your budget.

an $800 gaming computer is very different then a $2000 one, and all the advice that follows as well.

[Grumpy]

W7 64-bit

[Sirrus]

For ~$800, you could get a computer where you can't really complain about the quality of any game, even at 1080p. I spent $850 on mine and that's the case.

You won't be able to max out really recent or highly intensive games (the game I haven't been able to max are Crysis, ARMA, STALKER CoP, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 and GTAIV) but none of them look bad by any stretch of the word.

If you can deal with a few jaggies and maybe not breathtaking but still good effects, you can get a very good machine for ~$800.

[Solid]

Oh dam I was wrong. You can build a good computer for that cheap.

800 dollars is cheap?

[Otis Da HousKat]

What OS should I get?

OS/2 Warp!

[Righteous One]

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The 945 is probably cheaper and will yield the same performance. I wouldn't recommend getting the cooler, especially a Zalman one at that. If this is your first build you probably won't be overclocking soon. If you do decide to get a cooler I would go with the Cooler Master Hyper 212. Thermal compound is generally useless, I should add. The case isn't too bad... I wouldn't really recommend a 1tb hard-drive. Most people don't use over 500gb anyways. On that note, I would recommend waiting a bit until the sandy-bridge motherboards become more abundant. They are quite a bit more powerful then AMD's Phenom series right now and only a tad bit pricier. As I said at one point somewhere else, RAM is pretty cheap nowadays. I would definitely go with 6gb.

I would also ditch the 460. AMD's 6850 is more powerful and about the same price.