Good Desktop Computers!
 

Hey I was wondering if anyone knew any good desktop computers for gaming and skype etc. If you do feel free to post a link or tell me what the name of it is my price range is 300-500 so if there are any good Desktops feel free to post it here!
,Thanks Envi

Buy a Dell.
Then overtime, upgrade parts to improve it for gaming.

Ok thanks 99

Or better idea is to build your own.. Not all that hard...And its much better than getting a built one anyway.

You'll avoid warranty while building your own, so nope.

I'd buy an i3 with 300-500 with a 4GB RAM, Radeon VC, 350 GB would be enough. People wouldn't really need 1 TB for gaming, nor need the best VGA out there since all games run at a good rate...

I would recommend building your own rig, but there's really not much you can do in your price range. Actually, you could probably make a decent rig for around $500. Built one around that price range a year or two ago and it was pretty sufficient for the games I played.

Definately, can't stress this enough: BUILD YOUR OWN.

With $800.00, you could play Far Cry 3 easily, and do any other PC tasks easily.

800 on a PC? Woah.

£800's not enough! For a good gaming PC anyway.

With 300 - 500 as your price range, you won't be able to build that great of a gaming PC. You could build one, it could probably run good graphics as well, but I'd recommend saving up more, till atleast 1000, though I'm not sure how much parts are in the US.

But if your still looking to buy one, I watched a video a while back on JackFrags building a gaming PC with just £300. He even tests it at the end, if you want to watch that.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh455l3348s

I'm sorry, but where the **** did you read that? Normally I don't mind people trying to give advice, but that was horrible. Not only is it not true, but building your own is the way to go.

If you don't know how to build a computer, you can always go to your local hardware store and they might assemble it for you at a cost.

You don't need $800+ to have a good gaming rig, really. If you're fine playing games on high/medium settings a $500 computer can run everything besides the occasional glorified tech demo (I'm looking at you, Crysis 3).

Note: I define a "Good" rig as something that can run the currently 'high end' games at the time with medium settings at 40+ fps. Running (literally) everything on max settings 1080 60fps is not a good rig, its a behemoth monster machine.

Building your own will save you tons of cash

What...? Each part you get normally comes with warranty...

If they're on budget, you should probably suggest something AMD- AMD doesn't have the best cpu out there, but they have good CPUs for those on a budget.

I'd still suggest going for 1TB HDD; it will allow them to expand if they need more than just gaming.

and I'm going to assume you mean GPU instead of VGA...?

Thanks Guys I guess I'm going to build my own. I found some info on how to build a Pc and what parts I need to build it so im going to start buying as soon as possible

just make sure your power supply has enough rails to power your new graphics card

what parts do you already have that's gonna be used on the new pc? for example, monitor(s), keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc.

Wow.. just for warranty? Your warranty will eventually run out. Lol.. as i said building is the way to go. Its wayyyy better and worth ur buck.

When building you may get uncompromising results, a warranty would avoid that.

You'd have to compare it to the price, AMD < Nvidia < Radeon btw. And in my country, no parts comes with a warranty.

And I'm sure he won't need a 1TB since he's not storing an entire server on it, nor running 110 high quality games (Assasin's Creed / Far Cry and whatnot are usually 6-11GB) and the RAM would cover up on them anyways, those PC prices are usually from 600-1200$.

If you go the building route I would recommend something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI B75MA-E33 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($56.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($47.98 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7770 1GB Video Card ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($34.90 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX12V Power Supply ($37.73 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($16.97 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $479.53
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-25 09:42 EDT-0400)

CPU: Performance between it and AMD's FX-6300 is quite similar but the i3 will have the upper-hand in older games. I also find Intel builds are a bit more forgiving for a new builder.

Video Card: Your budget is quite limited but a Radeon 7770 is really good for the price right now and should perform way better than anything you've dealt with before.

You're going to have to "download" Windows 7 though if your budget is only $500.

Dell offers a similar build for $450 but with no graphics card, has a 1TB (1000GB) HDD, and the power supply is likely lack luster and not good for supporting power hungry graphics cards.

If you want a second opinion and more building advice check out http://reddit.com/r/buildapc Their sidebar has plenty of links and information for new builders.

Once you build a PC for yourself, you'll never go back to buying them pre-made. Building just gets you way more for the money and you learn a valuable skill in the process.

i got a asus for about 350$

That psu only has two 12 volt rails. I always go for three. I've had computers not POST because my video card sucks up all the amps.

Great but that's not necessary at all for the build I'm suggesting. Some companies even lie about the amount of 12V rails they actually have in their PSUs as well.

Given the low power usage of the build altogether the Antec VP-450 could easily support a much more power hungry card like the Radeon 7870 if it wanted, however due to the fact the Antec VP-450 only has 1 PCI-E adapter I would suggest someone get a larger (modular) power supply if they're going to use a high-end video card.

the corsair tx750 uses a single 12v rail.