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I want to build or buy, whichever makes more sense, a new Desktop PC for my son. I know he will want to game with it. In fact its probably the primary focus. What is the best way to go about this?

Processor/Graphics Card/Tower Case/Motherboard/RAM/Input Output etc... I want him to never really have to worry about the PC being Slow. Good if its under $1500. Better if under 1K.

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Kyle Abrahams, PMP

Building you get a lot more bang for your buck in my opinion.

What I normally do is I scour tomshardware forums for other people's builds, and then tweak it myself.

pcpartpicker.com is also nice because you can keep track of what you're buying, and allows others to view your builds.

For example . . . just fooling around I came up with:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WGWhLk You may be able to tweak it a bit more for your configurations / budget.

With a primary focus on gaming though: this is your priority:

Graphics Card (go Nvidia look at an SLI for later)
CPU (Haswell)
RAM
Motherboard (should support SLI for future expansion)
PowerSupply
Hard Drives (I always go 2, an SSD for your OS and then a 7200 RPM data drive)
Optical Drives

The sound cards on the motherboards are usually good enough, don't waste your money there.

Hope that helps . . . if you want to try a specific build and then post back with it we can help you out more.

nobus

>> I want him to never really have to worry about the PC being Slow. << after some years; all become slow
>> Good if its under $1500. Better if under 1K. << impossible, if you want a top video card

that said, you may want to look at these :
top gamer pc : http://www.hitech-gamer.com/?lang=1&langid=3&gclid=CM3S49-3-sUCFYPHtAodaUQAbw

best gaming PC of 2015 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-gaming-pc,review-2219.html

marchopkins

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thanks.