Need a new (less expensive) computer (and want BF3)

Added a few things above.

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How did I forget the RAM? lol

also its been a while since a motherboard has come out needing an external sound card right?

 

I guess some still do, but my Asus was good to go

 

It's easy to do man. I ordered parts for a computer I was building, got the boxes open, everything laid out ready to go and realized I didn't have a damn processor.

You are probably right on the motherboard audio - it's been a couple years since I've built a PC for gaming.

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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 7.4
Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 7.2
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory 7.2
Primary hard disk 69GB Free (112GB Total) 7.9

 

I'd agree with most of the rest, but another vote for Laptop. I have a gaming laptop that I bought with a 32" external monitor that I have mounted on my wall, and I have my laptop hooked up to it via HDMI, and bought an external mouse and keyboard. Check out:

www.newegg.com
www.tigerdirect.com
www.xoticpc.com

hope that helps. Try to get an MSI or ASUS.

 

x2 on Asus if you get a laptop, or hell even for your pc components. I have several Asus parts in my desktop, all work awesome, and my lappy is a Asus, which hasn't had a single issue in my several years of abusing it.

 

True. But a lot of onboard sound sucks. IF you're just playing games through some computer speakers or headphones, it's usually just fine. But if you want really great sound, check out the Asus Xonar DX sound card. HUGE upgrade compared to onboard sound.

 

This is the laptop I have:
http://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gt780dxr099us-preorder-p-3130.html

and the monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116492

 

I'm a big fan of Asus motherboards.

 

even my "cheap" asrock motherboard has been awesome so far. I love the bios on it, so easy to use.

 

You really don't need more than 8 gigs of ram, but I just saw 24 gigs for 199 at micro center.

 

Plus building your own opens up the world of "overclocking". I'm still running an "outdated" q6600 @ 3.6 and just plan on updating the video card in the near future. Yeah, it may not be as fast as the brand new cores but overclocking helps me extended my use with a certain chip until the newer models drop in $.

 

I would check out this site...They have pretty sick computers that you can customize and are relatively not that expensive.
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/
Heres two computers i thought were good for their price and are around $1000.
Desktop
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Xtreme_3000/
Laptop
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Xplorer_X7-7500_Gaming_Notebook/

 

For gaming that is ridiculous, but that is a good deal.

We're running 32GB in five of our servers in our Data Center - they're all running ESXi, so we needed to be able to have at least 2GB per VM running on it.

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