To build a gaming pc, you have to know how to balance your components for best performance. If budget is no concern, then you're lucky and the job is easy. For the rest of us, it is about knowing which parts of the computer are most stressed during gaming, and giving budget priority to those parts. The items to focus on, in order of importance, are:

In short, with gaming computers you will want to give a lot of priority to your video card since it does most of the work, but with enough power in the rest of the system to support it to its full potential. If you don't get enough memory, your games will bog down, and if you don't get a fast enough CPU, you won't be using your video card to its full potential. The choices for the rest of your gaming computer are essentially secondary to these three components.

Fortunately, we're here to help. Optimizing performance for specific games and specific budgets is our specialty. Take the general advice we give here, and configure a gaming computer from any of the categories above. If you feel you need help, just hit "Submit for Review" when you're done configuring everything as best you can. We're happy to help! You have come to the right place. We are big enough to give you confidence to purchase from us, and still small enough to give you individual attention.