This will be the first of many posts. Computers cost less these days, and you don’t need to spend a couple grand to get a good gaming computer.
I’d recommend one this card. Nothing special, an average card that will drive the games out there well.
That totals to about $540.
This system is a one of many barebone systems at Tiger Direct. This is the tower, so make sure you have a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
It also comes with a blank hard drive, so you need to make sure you have a copy of windows. I haven’t seen a game yet that requires more than Windows XP.
Also, you need to buy a graphic card. It supports PCI Express graphic cards, and supports SLI, so I’d stick with Nvidia cards.
What does all that mean?
SLI means that the motherboard is able to support up two graphics cards. So you can get a couple of low cost or high cost cards and double up your power.
Note though, the power supply is only 550 watts, so if you get a couple of cards, a nice future upgrade might be to get a new power supply. If you get a couple high cost cards for this, you would almost need to upgrade the power supply.