Don't much about computers, want to build one, need help.

I currently own a laptop which stays at home and a mac that I carry around to school and stuff. A lot of my friends are playing World of Warcraft and that game seems to run really slow on my laptop so I want to build a computer just for gaming purposes. My friend recommended this website so here I am. I don't know if this is the right section to ask for help, if it's not, I'm sorry and please direct me to the right section. Anyways, I'm willing to spend around $1,500 dollars for the best gaming system I can buy. I already have the Windows operating system so I don't need that. I just need the hardware. Would you guys please give me some good recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Charles

Smart friend, pawning this off on us to help you. Put together a list of parts from Newegg or something and post it here so we can make suggestions to help you get the best parts for your money. I would start you off a basic list of parts in your budget range, but I'm not sober enough to do that right now.

hey man so ur saying that

if i get an nvidia chipset mobo i need to get an nvidia graphic card ?


and the nVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 chipset can i use a single pci-express card ?



thanks for ur information duds

I think thats wrong. I thought that i read somewhere that you can run crossfire as long as the mobo supports 2 8x pci-e (think of the new 975 chipset from intel)

edit this is a list me and another guy made on another forum. https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersio [...] tle=Morbid it comes to roughly 1100 $. If you up the proc to an opty 165/170 and the gfx to a 7900gtx or an x1900xt you should be exactly at your 1500$ price limit. Guess thats pretty much the best bang/buck setup.

or if you can wait: conroe will be out soon (23ed June?) and AM2 should have its bugs worked out soon

if you plan to stick with mmorpg's such as wow, unless things start changing radically youll always be able to play games like that about one or two technology generations back, not a bad thing if you ask me, its just that FPS is usually the game type that pushes cpu's, and gpu's to their limiits. So like someone said in there post above, for now, with WoW youd probrobly be fine running like an athlon xp 3400, a 7600gt a gig of ram on a 939 motherboard. and have plenty of money left over in your pocket for cooler accesories (im guesing you dont have these to cary over as if I understood correctly you dont have an existing pc) go for a nice headset if you plan to voice chat, a nice keyboard and mouse, maybe a nice sound card if music is your thing, a 5.1 speaker system, have some fun with it and customize it.

Hey if you want your computer put together for you check out built4ucomputing.com. they will order, build and ship your computer for you based on your parts list or they will suggest components based on what it will be used for.