crazybobmarley

If you're going to play games, you don't want a Dell cause they run Intel exclusively.

Saving money isn't the idea here, one of the main drawbacks to using Dell is their prorietary motherboards, and anyone who has done this knows that the motherboard is often the most important part of the system. So you become limited as far as customizing and upgrading in the future.

In fact I think the only worthwhile thing about a Dell is the ingenuity of the cases.

AMD is cheaper and much better for that sort of use, and if you're getting an SLI motherboard why would you go with ATI ? If you don't want to get 2 video cards, [NVIDIA for SLI or ATI for Crossfire], then get a non SLI motherboard and save a bunch of money.

And the wiring isn't the difficult part, it's actually finding individual components that will work together correctly. Drivers and software aren't much of a problem anymore since XP is so friendly to those sorts of things. I would be more then happy to make system recommendations if you wanted to outline your budget.