budget is $1000...good rig?

I posted here a couple months ago about building a rig just for fun to learn more about building one. But now I seriously want to build one. Just seems better overall than console gaming and plus with college coming up, it'd be nice to have a good computer. So what are some good parts (psu, cpu, chassis, RAM, gpu, MoBo, HDD) as well as a monitor for $1000 or less? I don't necessarily need something to max out everything, but at least high settings with a good frame rate on all games that are currently out.
Thanks in advance!

Also, I have an old copy of FFVII Ultima Edition that my friend gave me, but it won't work on my laptop, so will the potential parts be able to run it?

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention that I already have an operating system (the same one you mentioned actually) so that's all set. My parents have a broken eMachine in the garage...do you think that the DVD drive would work from that?

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention that I already have an operating system (the same one you mentioned actually) so that's all set. My parents have a broken eMachine in the garage...do you think that the DVD drive would work from that?

POkemonfreak101

DVD drives are so cheap that it doesn't matter... As for a build:

Reasons for choosing what I chose:

-i5 750 is a very high performance cost effective quad core CPU, even better than the 1055 (hexacore AMD) at gaming...

-I picked an EVGA board so you have the option to SLI in the future (same with the 750w PSU)... If a year or two from now your system starts to run games a little slower, you can just get another 465 and SLI them without needed to upgrade/change anything...

-Two 500GB WDs in RAID 0 will be 1TB of very fast storage... (RAID is very easy to set up now, all modern motherboards have onboard RAID controllers that work well enough for 2 drives in RAID 0 or 1, etc)...

- GTX 465, pretty much the same price as a 460, with slightly more performance...

- Case may seem a bit cheap, but CM makes very good cases all around and their lower end cases are no different (could always change it as well)...

[QUOTE="POkemonfreak101"]

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention that I already have an operating system (the same one you mentioned actually) so that's all set. My parents have a broken eMachine in the garage...do you think that the DVD drive would work from that?

Buttons1990

DVD drives are so cheap that it doesn't matter... As for a build:

Reasons for choosing what I chose:

-i5 750 is a very high performance cost effective quad core CPU, even better than the 1055 (hexacore AMD) at gaming...

-I picked an EVGA board so you have the option to SLI in the future (same with the 750w PSU)... If a year or two from now your system starts to run games a little slower, you can just get another 465 and SLI them without needed to upgrade/change anything...

-Two 500GB WDs in RAID 0 will be 1TB of very fast storage... (RAID is very easy to set up now, all modern motherboards have onboard RAID controllers that work well enough for 2 drives in RAID 0 or 1, etc)...

- GTX 465, pretty much the same price as a 460, with slightly more performance...

- Case may seem a bit cheap, but CM makes very good cases all around and their lower end cases are no different (could always change it as well)...

[QUOTE="POkemonfreak101"]

Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention that I already have an operating system (the same one you mentioned actually) so that's all set. My parents have a broken eMachine in the garage...do you think that the DVD drive would work from that?

Buttons1990

DVD drives are so cheap that it doesn't matter... As for a build:

Reasons for choosing what I chose:

-i5 750 is a very high performance cost effective quad core CPU, even better than the 1055 (hexacore AMD) at gaming...

-I picked an EVGA board so you have the option to SLI in the future (same with the 750w PSU)... If a year or two from now your system starts to run games a little slower, you can just get another 465 and SLI them without needed to upgrade/change anything...

-Two 500GB WDs in RAID 0 will be 1TB of very fast storage... (RAID is very easy to set up now, all modern motherboards have onboard RAID controllers that work well enough for 2 drives in RAID 0 or 1, etc)...

- GTX 465, pretty much the same price as a 460, with slightly more performance...

- Case may seem a bit cheap, but CM makes very good cases all around and their lower end cases are no different (could always change it as well)...