such as maya / blender, photoshop and games such as Counter strike, serious sam 2...halo 2 and any more decent games? I was thinking 8800GT @TomDrum: I'm thinking you are right. My 8600GT just doesn't cut it for serious gaming, but I only game a little....

was aware of eBay and such. Talked him down to $50 which I really just wanted the games. It was a gamble but I sold system on ebay with couple games I already had and got $30 for it. I picked up a system with stack of really beat up games for $2. It...

offices and homes and its rare to find the people who have the machine to play a cod4 much less a doom 3 but if they do play games the play those easy to buy and download or play online games that have the system requirements of 11 years ago.Most people want...

but only at lower resolutions and pretty crappy quality. Or get a whole new system. You can get a half decent gaming rig for £500 which'll let you play a lot of decent games at medium resolution. $250 is really not a budget. Its a mid range-ish gfx...

You might want to start a thread in the "Homebuilt Systems" Forum, under "New System Build". They could probably get you the best deals and parts for a new, but cheap, system. Yeah, I'm liking the AMD CPU, a cheaper motherboard, and a 4830. Sounds pretty decent....

much rather spend $800 on a decent gaming system than $300+ on a console and double for the games. My computer is my TV, stereo, gaming system, programming dev system, etc. Well worth the extra money, IMO. That PC is also better than the PS3 and 360....

like to try fps gaming some time cod mw2 or something along that line. I want to be able the following to the system in the future and have no handshake issues or lack of slots on the mb. firewire hdmi card bluray drive decent video card, can have either...

new games like UT3, Crysis, COD4, Oblivion, NFS:Carbon, etc. I bough this GDDR4 version for $63 AR with the Witcher: Also, an 8800GS or 9600GT is twice the card and costs $110 AR new. For old games the 7900GS is decent, not worth over $50 IMO though. Tell...

We play the Wii and game together so I am not that computer literate (be a bit specific here but I can navaigate the web well) or I would build my own. I can install wireless cards, video and sound upgrade cards, never did RAM before and my present system is...