Build a custom computer at $1000 or less?

Personally, I have never been into the whole OC thing. Okay okay so my last video card was a 9800GTX+ where the + means it was overclocked and worked from the manufacturer. Anyway, looking at that last statement, you can see I prefer the Intel, nVidia combo instead of AMD/ATi.

Again that is only personal preference. Some will argue you just HAVE to go Intel or HAVE to go AMD. Meh.

Look at specs. Figure minimum 3.0GHz processor, 8GB RAM and 512MB vid card--of course 1GB is much better. But, your choice of video card is dependent upon gaming not graphic design.

If you're only going to be making pictures and using programs that do that, you don't need a gaming card. Manipulating images is far easier for a card than rendering 3D objects that are found in games. In fact, if you're doing a lot of image manipulation and video editing, etc the Mac is better than any but the very expensive PC setups out there.

My personal system has a nice 24" HD monitor, but a family member's office systems are all 2 19" square monitor setups. Both have their advantages depending upon how you want to use them. If you're gaming at all I would stick with one nice large monitor instead of a dual setup.

When doing the other stuff besides gaming you can just open up windows and throw them around where you need them. I am lucky that I spend money on my computer like some guys spend money on their cars. I have a core i7, 16GB, nVidia GTX275 setup.

Of course a CD/DVD burner and some older 150GB SATA drives inside too... and a regualr mouse and keyboard. There isn't a game out there that doesn't auto detect and go right to max settings on everything. I have considered going SLI, but I made a rather poor choice of mobo and the two PCIe slots are right next to each other.

I have to get one where there's room in between them before I go that route. I just can't see how they stay cool with one sucking in the heat from the other. Newegg is a good choice.

They're usually cheaper than tigerdirect. However, tigerdirect usually does a better job of having items in stock.

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