Originally Posted by Respital

Your not going to get much for 400-500$ if you could i'd suggest spending 1000-1300$. A 400-500$ gaming machine would get heavily outdated quickly. Which games were you looking to play and at what settings?
My current rig (as seen in my sig) can play games like counter strike source hl2 deathmatch, guild wars, wow all on high settings without a problem it only cost me about 1200$ with tax and everything. Also which company are you looking at to buy the parts from .. newegg, tigerdirect, canadacomputers ?