I need help on PC Gaming please. Tell me what to buy please.

Hey guys,

So I stopped the whole rat race and keeping up with PC stuff but now I want to get back into it and need some help. Like normal - regular help.

Ok, so last time I bought a PC Gaming Machine was when Ago Of Conan released. I had some money and went to Best Buy, Grabbed the game, walked over to the PC guys and said "I want a lap top that will run this game balls out!" - About $1,800.00 dollars later I had a Gateway FX or something or another. Yes, it did in fact run the game balls out....but after about 2 years it was struggling to run any new games being released.

So....About 3 years after that...maybe even like 2 1/2 years later my kid wanted a Lap Top. Went up to Walmart and purchased some Dell something or another on clearance. It cost me about $230.00 bucks.

Now, this Dell I got was actually WAY more powerful than the Gateway Gaming Laptop I purchased a few years earlier. Like, twice as powerful and a fraction of the cost. Not only could it run Age of Conan better than the Gateway ever did, It could run like 4 instances of the game at a time! It also could run that new Funcom MMO (On DX 9 and extremely low settings) but it ran it well enough that It didn't impede my enjoyment. It was Forsaken World or whatever? The one with the Illuminati?

Soooo....I am done with the whole spending alot of money and buying super powerful stuff. What I need right now is a PC or Lap Top...depending on the bang for the buck that will run this new WildStar MMO. If there is something like that Dell I got at Walmart out there that can run the game at the price range I picked up the other Dell for I would be willing to buy 2-3 of them (So me and the kids can all play this and stuff like Gary's Mod and Smite together).

So just to simplify it, I need a PC or Lap Top that I can just go up to Walmart, Best Buy, Fryes, or even Tiger Direct (All of these retailers are in Dallas) and just buy it. Go home, and be able to play and enjoy this Wildstar MMO. Can someone link something like I'm talking about? I have no intention or desire to even try to ever play games like Battlefield on it. I just need something good enough to enjoy WildStar and maybe that new Everquest I have been hearing about...Oh and Disney Infinity would be cool too.

You maybe thinking well why don't you just go back up to Walmart ad grab another $230.00 Laptop. In all honesty, I feel like I was extremely lucky when that happened and knpwing my luck...it aint gonna happen again.

So what should I buy? Or what was a completely BOSS PC 2 - 3 years ago that's like $300 bucks now?

Thanks!

Laptops for gaming is going to be more expensive and tend to age poorly. Stay away from Wallyworld and Bestbuy for gaming pc's. Frys and Tigerdirect are good places to find some decent prebuilt gaming pc's. But they are good places to pick up the parts to build your own for less $$.

If your not willing to build one , Then look for prebuilt pc's with specs like these

FX 6300 or any intel i5 with at least 8gb of ram, comes with at least AMD 7850 or R7 260x type of gpu or Nvidia GTX 650ti+/750ti+

Here are few links to some from each place

Couple of Fry's

http://www.frys.com/product/8007864?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

http://www.frys.com/product/7671937?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Tiger's

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8529717&Sku=KBU-101777752

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8433453&Sku=I455-G1318

check this out

2000 dollar custom built water cooled gaming pc mini itx build i5 4670k overclocked to 4.0ghz 16 gigs ddr3 gskill 1600mhz ram msi mini motherboard built in wifi evga gtx 660ti video card 850watt xion power supply 256 gig ssd+1tb hard driver windows 7 boots to windows in less then 10 sec plays all my games on highest settings at over 100 fps aula mouse,keyborad,and 7.1 headset and 40 led tv for monitor built 8 months ago asking 1200 can test before you buy may trade for??

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/sys/4504875506.html

According to their recommanded speccs, this should be finre. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7847202&CatId=1887

But my advise is to wait a bit to see a few benchmark and then decide what to buy. (I did't find any benchmark yet...)