New PC

[blackout]

my current machine is crap, at some point I'm getting a new one: can someone reccomend a good PC, with good processsing power, a decent graphics card, decent RAM and is good for games? (that preferably isn't one of those really tacky "gaming computers")

 

[DEATHMASTER]

what is your price budget.

 

[blackout]

I never really thought about that? prpobably anything below 1000 quid, that might not sound like much but I saw some pretty cheap ones on the PC world website.

 

[MRG]

Europe eh?

Not sure which stores are local to you or even ship to your location, let alone the price but I would advise a system based around the following hardware. Simply price them where ever you live.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0GHz
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus II Formula
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 w/512MB
System RAM: G.SKILL 6GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Triple Channel Kit
Sound Card: Depends on your OS - Vista - Use the onboard - XP - Use..... Some love the X-Fi & some don't. I have an old Audigy 2 ZS & it has never let me down.
Power supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W CrossFire Ready - 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

With the release of the new Core i7, it's hard to build you a PC that fully uses all of "Todays" newest tech, as since it's new, it's expensive. The choice is really yours. The above listing is just a very basic guideline. However, it will provide you with excellent performance, now & for at least a year to some, if not longer. By then "Todays" tech will be much cheaper & "Tomorrows" tech will have been released.

-MRG

 

[blackout]

I wanna buy a complete one not build my own.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

you're losing money to others labor that way. You can get more bang for your buck if you build it on your own. But here's a customizing site if you still don't care: www.ibuypower.com
Don't know if they sell to non-US.