Whats a good gaming computer and how much?

Your best bet (if you’ve got any experience) is to build your own. I purchased the parts for my last computer from newegg and built it at home. It gives you ultimate freedom to purchase your own parts. I would buy a cpu/motherboard combo, then fill in the parts from there.

On the other hand, if you don’t have the experience to build your own, you can get “gaming” machines from Dell, and many other manufacturers. Just be careful on their “upgrades”. They will barely upgrade something and give it a new name so that it sounds like its worth more. Check the hardware specs of each machine very carefully. Often the machines will be 98% similar but have a boost in price for one tiny, negligible improvement.

Build it yourself is definately the best way to get value for money. Specs wise I’d for an intel i5 2500K, Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z motherboard, 8Gb of RAM (I know its overkill but RAM is so cheap at the moment you might as well), an NVvidi GTX580 (you could probably get away with a 570 or even a 560 depending on the resolution of your monitor) and an SSD.

I’ll just add that if you’re making a gaming rig, three things which are very important (and often get overlooked) are power supply, cooling, and reliable RAM. Gaming hardware draws a lot of power, and the second-most common source of instability (after overclocking) is insufficient power. Get a power supply larger than what you’ll need to make sure you’re never going to come up short when your system is under stress (as happens a lot with gaming). And all that extra power produces a lot of extra heat. I invested in a Cooler Master case with 8 fans (get good ones, not stock) because I’ve had problems with heat in the past as a result of not having air conditioning. The third item, reliable RAM, is one of those things most people scrimp on, and never realize how much harm it’s done to them. RAM goes bad over time, and the more RAM which goes bad, the less reliable your system becomes. Never buy cheap, generic RAM. It’s just not worth it. Pay the premium and get fast, name-brand RAM. You won’t notice it when you have it — but you’ll notice if you don’t.