My gaming PC would cost about 2.2-2.3k if I needed to replace everything, guess the base unit alone would be around £1400-1500 but it isn’t particularly high-end tbh, sub £200 CPU, 8gig ram,  SSD, decent mobo and soundcard, 400+ quid in graphics cards, I have a 27" monitor and gaming @ 2560x1440 needs quite a lot more GPU grunt over for example 1920x1200 to keep the frame rate over 60 with eye candy turned on.
It was put together with the aim of being reasonably quiet for a air cooled crossfire set up, rather than going for all out performance or value for money, so I spent quite a bit on the case and swapped out the standard case fans for Noctua’s which bumped the price quite a bit.

 A good gaming system to run on a single 1920x1080 monitor could be put together for well under £900 and IMO that would be good until the next gen of consoles comes out, as we will not see much in the way of improvements in graphics till then, that’s with quality parts and not skimping at all, on a budget £500- 600 could build a very usable gaming machine.

Higher resolutions than 1920x1200, 3D or Eyefinty see’s the price climb rapidly, if money was no object I would be running something like this:

Higher resolutions than 1920x1200, 3D or Eyefinty see’s the price climb rapidly, if money was no object I would be running something like this:

that's what my nephew is running... 3 x 24inch screens in portrait and eye infinity at full HD and 2 cards in sli
(can't remember which screens, but they're nice dell ones)

looks horrible to me most of the time.... using windows like that just plain freaks me out... but he loves it

That looks crazy! Doesn't look like there is any lag and running a nice number of FPS..

On another note.. why don't they make force feed back mice and keyboards for PC gamers?

Haha, probably.. What about full body force feedback, so you knew where and from which direction you were being shot 

I'm sure they had it on The Gadget Show. Old link to the tech:

http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/6912/philips-force-feedback-jacket.html

I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

16Gb is the limit for 7 Home iirc.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 21, 2012, 01:13:30 AM

I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

16Gb is the limit for 7 Home iirc.

Home Premium too actually, which i'm disgusted by in all honesty as that information is nowhere to be seen on their sh*tty Anytime Upgrade either. You shouldn't have to buy a more expensive OS just to use the full amount of RAM your hardware is capable of. RAM is neither an expensive luxury or difficult to support as once you're on 64-bit the paging of RAM addresses is a total non-issue. Imagine if they stopped lesser versions of it working with SSDs or high end graphics cards instead?