Need some advice.

[Aimless]

The motherboard will limit what you can do with your pc, i.e. what type of ram you can use, what graphics card etc.

Might be worth buying a pc online, or save yourself some cash and make one yourself, Ive only ever done it once and that was for my brothers Christmas box, it wasn't difficult you just need common sense really and if you wanting to get into gaming you need to know these things imo.

nvidia gtx 460 > ati 6850, I have a single 460 and its awesome (althought i have 4 pci express slots lol)

2 x 4 gb ram > 4 x 2 gb ram, 4 sticks would cause more strain on the memory controller and motherboard chipset. It would take slightly longer for the CPU to add and retrieve data from 4 sticks as opposed to 2.

Hope it helps

Not to mention, in the future you can upgrade to 4 x 4 gb if you choose too, so it's the best way to go.

 

[usairways08]

I was just reading over your posts and not sure if you had come to a decision or not. If you have then im sorry for posting this, but about 5 months ago i decided I was going to build my own computer. I knew very little about computer parts (by very little I mean I probably couldn't tell the difference between a Heatsink, RAM, CPU, etc.) Anyways, I looked around on the internet and found a great site that had a forums with people that helped me out a ton. Im not sure if i can post the website on here or not but if you are interested feel free to PM me. They helped me put together and build and also showed me some great tutorials on how to build it. Now when i finally ordered all the parts. It took me about 45 min to put together. It was a breeeze!!! Everything is quite easy and you should not choose to just buy a complete computer if your only worry is not being able to build it properly. Believe me it is very very very easy!!! Anyways goodluck and hopefully you'll enjoy your purchase no matter what!

 

[Noodles :)]

There are some great people out there that will help you aye?

2 forums that I reckon that are good for computers are the gamespot & steam in the hardware sections, they're a lot of help and know a ton more then me lol