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if I had a thousand dollars to play with, what should I go for?

assume gamer geek/college student
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From scratch? Do you have a monitor already? Any hard drives? Case?
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both ibuypower and cyberpowerinc offer good deals on gaming systems for under 1 grand.
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Are you willing to build it yourself?
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Enforcer Talen wrote:if I had a thousand dollars to play with, what should I go for?

assume gamer geek/college student
*snicker* Without the subject of "computer shopping", this post could get mighty interesting... :wink:

Do you want to start from scratch, or are you building off already having a monitor, keyboard, speakers, etc?
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say, start from the beginning.

and av, I offered for us to take a look in the toy shop, but you wanted to go get ice cream :P
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