Building a gaming rig. An overkill one to last me a while.

[MegaScientifical]

About what part

Well, the last one. Something new and cooler than previously sounds pricy.

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[Ethan]

$320 for the top of the range, highest clocked 8 core.
They also come in 4 and 6 cores though.

[MegaScientifical]

$320 for the top of the range, highest clocked 8 core.
They also come in 4 and 6 cores though.

Just for that one part...

[Ethan]

Just for that one part...

..?
I delivar'd

[Aniken 911]

24 gigs is m-m-m-m-m-onsterkill.

24 gigs?

Pfft.

I've got 775 gigs of available space on my computer.

[fred da kiko]

24 gigs?

Pfft.

I've got 775 gigs of available space on my computer.

pfff 775 gigs? i have 1025 gigs of freespace in 10 gig flashdrives.

[MegaScientifical]

24 gigs?

Pfft.

I've got 775 gigs of available space on my computer.

RAM, not Harddrive.

[Tokthree]

On the subject of dual-monitors, assuming you want to have one for the game and another for browsing the web and chatting to friends while playing, it'd be cheaper and much less space consuming to only buy one high-end graphics card, a single monitor and a cheap netbook.
Or keep your current rig and use that for browsing/server hosting/extra file storage space

[Butler]

What the forget. You DO NOT need this.

1. You're going into 9th grade. That's a little young for $3,000.
2. Not to be an ass, but what do you do, that you need a computer THAT powerful? I mean, yeah it's an awsome computer, But do you NEED it?

[Texan101]

I got a laptop for $400. It can run Blockland and most Valve games without a problem. Only Portal 2 does it ever have problems with, and that's simply because of the cpu-intensive moments like GLaDOS's reawakening.
It runs Starcraft 2, but not as well as people expect everyone playing Starcraft 2 online to run. It runs Oblivion just fine, but Bioshock it has an echo problem, as well as having trouble in combat situations. Still, $400 for a 2.1 GHz laptop wasn't bad when I got it.

[Ethan]

If he wants to, let him buy it.