Case. Price: $100Power Supply. Price: $155Motherboard. Price: $160 <-- I use this motherboard more than any other one when I build computers for customers. Never heard a single complaint. I personally use this one thoughProcessor. Price: $250Ram. Price: $100Hard Drive. Price: $40SSD Drive. Price: $165GPU. Price: $500.Total: $1470. You can change out the case for this. It's cheaper. You can also remove the SSD, I just put it there for fast booting of OS, games and your important software (photoshop, cinema4d).My personal recommendation of a keyboard;http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823239014I use it, it's damn near indestructible. I've thrown it against walls, hit it with all my force, stepped on it. etc etc etc.
That laptop isn't worth it, I reccommend this one instead; http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G73SW/Cheaper as well.
Where do you buy that?
My dad got it at Best Buy
Can I ask why you do that to your keyboard? Poor thing.
Most stores have it. I got mine at Tiger Direct for 1300. I used to compete in DotA and CS:S, so when I'd lose, I'd rage, haha.
So gaming and rendering?You'll need a good cpu as well as a good cooling system, a good gpu and at least 4gigs of ddr3.