Putting together your own rig is SUPER easy. The hardest part is picking out the right components. Really you could build a badass rig for ~800 bucks easy. AMD AM3 quad core (this isn't as good at the i7's BUT AMD is planning to put their 6/8/etc cores on this same socket..you won't need to upgrade mobos to get a fatty cpu upgrade in a couple of yrs). ATI has some AWESOME cards. 4870's are dirt cheap, and are awesome cards. The new 5000 series are a pretty solid jump for not much more though.
Once you get the components you'll see that there is only 1 slot they can fit in, and only 1 way. it's SUPER simple. Everything is color coded and such. Installing windows is as easy as clicking next a few times. The overall complexity of it is pretty low. Plus you have a whole board to help you out
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