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Vitamuffins wrote I say just buy an alienware or mac. building PCs is definitely not easy.

You've never built a PC or if you did, you made some easily-preventable mistakes. Under no circumstances is Alienware a good choice in the interest of performance, reliability, ease of ownershipe, anything. Macs are not for gaming, end of story.

mkdir wrote I would probably go a msi z77 board. The Z77s are great overclockers.

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I can't recommend this board. Weak 4+1 VRM with no cooling and the Z77 chipset is not what makes a good overclocking board. It's fine if for some reason you need a feature exclusive to Z77 that's not available on the other current 1155 chipsets, but it really should be run with locked CPUs and coolers. Keep in mind that non-K i5s can be overclocked by 400 MHz (4 bins). Even then, the Z77A-G43 is good enough for light overclocking and the Asrock Z75 Pro3 is cheaper and better than the G41.

Macs can be quite "okay" for gaming, if you're smart enough to install boot camp+windows 7.

I know new iMacs come with fairly capable mobile GPUs, but they're still not something you should buy specifically for gaming. I'd even recommend a prebuilt instead unless you absolutely need OS X running natively, but that's kind of contradictory. Still, it's cool that all-in-ones are getting beefier GPUs.

Thanks for the help I fog my build picked out just waiting on my taxes.

Vitamuffins wrote I say just buy an alienware or mac. building PCs is definitely not easy.

Actually, building a PC of any kind wether it is for gaming or just normal day-to-day tasks, is very simple. You just don't know how to do it properly.