What should I look for when buying a new computer?

Well you don't say if you need to get a monitor and speakers. If not you can get a lot more computer with your 1,000. Don't forget, Windows 7 will be out in around 5 months. Don't know if you want to wait.

Get a 64 bit OS Vista

Get Quad-core 2.5 GHz

4GB DDR3 at 1066MHz

500GB hard drive, if you have enough money go for 750gb

256mb video card

This would be fast, but it's might be over your budget. You can save by going with 2.3 GHz processor

the 500GB hard drive.

Hi !So this means ur budget is $800 ok.when i was buying a pc u will not believe but my budget was $300 and i was having no idea that how to buy a good pc with $300 somebody said me make Intel n some said me make Amd.actually one thing always happens when u saying that i m buying pc right now but its to difficult to do it.ok come to main topic now that u want a good pc in ur big bundle cash ok.

1.Hard drive WD Cavier Black 500gb

2.Ecs motherboard A790GXM-AD3 my opinion is Amd ok

3.Amd Phenom 940 AM3

4.4gb RAM DDR3

5.550 or 600 Power Watt mean power supply

!THINK THIS IS YOUR SUPERCOMPUTER!

OR DON'T FORGET TO INSTALL 64 BIT OS's

WHAT EVER IT IS VISTA , XP , OR WINDOWS 7

I THINK THIS ALL WILL COVER YOUR $750

Its all done ok or inbuilt graphic card of this motherboard is very powerful even u can play Crysis Warhead game in medium Graphics or if u ever wanted to buy a graphic card then buy Ati 3870 x2 1gb i can truly say u that no card can beat it or this is ever green card or it has 1 more advantage for u that ur every Ati card starting from 3000 series will make crossfire with ur A790GXM-AD3 motherboard z inbuilt graphic card.

I answer to no one ! But i wanna help someone !

Hard drive

If you plan on storing a lot of music CD's and movies, you'll want to go large. 1 song = 3~4MB, so if 1 CD = 10 songs = 30~40MB, 100 CD's = around 4GB. 1 movie = about 8GB. 20 movies = 160GB. Best to get a hard drive in the 500~640GB range for the system and a 1 TB external drive for storage.

Memory

If your getting the 32bit version of Vista, the max memory that os can utilize is 3~3.5GB. The 64bit version can use up to 120GB, but you won't need that, 4~6GB will be plenty.

Processor

For modern games, a 2.4GHz or better dual core will handle any game out there. But, as with anything, the more the better. Quad cores are good, but have no clear advantage over dual cores when it comes to gaming. Although there will be more in the future, there are currently only a handful of games available that are coded for quad cores.

Here's one possible Dell system-

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetail...

Start with the $599 base model, click customize, under processor select the Q8300, then click on memory and select 4GB, then click on video card and select either the 9800GT or HD 4670 (same price).

Final price $894. It will have-

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8300 (4MB L2, 2.5GHz, 1333FSB)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit

OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft Works 9.0

WARRANTY & SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis

MONITOR Dell S1909WX 19 inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs

HARD DRIVE 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive

VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON HD 4670 512MB

SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell Consumer Multimedia Keyboard and Laser Mouse

MEDIA READER Integrated 16-in-1 Media Card Reader edit

My Accessories

SPEAKERS No Speaker Option

SECURITY SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days

My Software & Accessories

ADOBE & ENTERTAINMENT WildTangent Games

My Service

REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service edit

DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year edit

ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM

MODEM No Modem Option

Mouse Mouse included with Keyboard purchase

Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language

Network Card Integrated 10/1000 Ethernet

Labels Windows Vista™ Premium

You can order it with more memory, but it's cheaper to add it yourself. Youtube has videos on "how to install pc memory", also for graphics cards, power supplies,etc. if you need them.

You can use the system for gaming and multimedia and get a 1TB external hard drive for storing your music and movies for as little as $110.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/c...

Buy a DELL and there optional Windows XP Professional Version operating system.

320GB hard drive

4GB memory

Phenom 9550 2.1Ghz (AMD)

HD4670 Ati graphics card

1.) 500 GB should be good

2.) RAM = 3GB

3.) I prefer AMD but Intel is fine too