You'll want a lot of RAM, around 6-8 GB, and a motherboard that can handle that. I recommend Windows 7 64 Bit for the OS, and a relatively modern Graphics Card, Nvidia being good. CPU is a different question too, probably Ivy or Sandy Bridge, though that's a little more out of my range of knowledge right now.

A lot of it's going to be determined by how much you have to spend. Four hundred? Seven hundred? Sky's the limit?

Regardless, I agree with BZPB that it won't hurt to get a decent motherboard and a good 6-8GB of ram with a 64-bit OS to match. RAM is cheap these days, and if you multitask a lot it can be quite helpful to have a lot to go around.

What do you even want it for? Gaming? Everyday use?

And no, I'd NEVER suggest you get any type of Apple product.

What do you even want it for? Gaming? Everyday use?

 

And no, I'd NEVER suggest you get any type of Apple product.

I mainly wanna game and be able to browse the web, yeah. Schoolwork is inevitably just Word-based.

Also my T key is no longer attached to my keyboard, so I'm just hitting the toggle switch to type Ts now.

It feels strange.

You want a desktop or a laptop? I recommend going to Costco for the latter - I got the stuff mentioned above with a Terabyte hard drive for a pretty low price.

I also recommend a 802.11n wireless card no matter what.

Honestly, I'm in the market for whatever works best for less, right now. I'm using a laptop, but it's pretty crippled, so it's more or less a desktop to me.

I think I have a pretty decent build, most games I have run at high or medium settings. Specs:

Asrock Fatal1ty P67 Performance (costed $100 when I got it but I see the price has been raised to about $154).

Radeon HD 6570 (should cost somewhere around $70 dollars, mine's the IceQ version with 1GB of DDR3 memory).

4 gigs of Ripjaw RAM (costs around $42 dollars).

Core i3 @3.1 GHz is around $120.

Apevia CB700 700w power supply was around $50.

I'm using a USB CD drive at the moment, as well as some spare IDE hard drives.

That's pretty much what I've got, but I wouldn't recommend the motherboard. The onboard audio never worked on mine as well as some of the other features. :\

Oh, and my wireless device is a Edimax EW-7811Un which is about $15, works great. I've also got a Enermax UC-8EB case fan.

Honestly, I'm in the market for whatever works best for less, right now. I'm using a laptop, but it's pretty crippled, so it's more or less a desktop to me.

I would try any Discount Electronics store. Cheap computers, with some rather good options. That's a good start, as I actually got a really great Laptop from them for only $170.

Surface or Lenovo.

If you just want Word and web, the Surface RT looks quite nice. I really want one, BUT

My current Lenovo is still working great and I appreciate it immensely.