Im sorry i dont know much about this stuff and was wondering if anybody could tell me whats the best motherboards, cpus, gpus, and sound cards out there within a reasonable price that best suit gaming like games for windows (vista). Thanks.

To start with, I suggest you avoid Vista for a gaming rig. The vast majority of games play much better with XP. But if you insist on having it, a dual boot setup with XP would be the way to go.

As for hardware recommendations, it depends on your budget & your CPU preference (AMD or Intel). Do you have any 'old' hardware that you plan on using or is this gonna be a 100% new build?

Excuse my ignorance but ill just tell you what i have now and ill ask your advice on what i should upgrade, and also games for windows is only useable through vista isnt it? So i guess i have no choice although i have heard of vista having trouble with modern hardware.

XP Professional 2002 service pack 2
AMD Athlon(tm) XP +2400
2.00 GHz/ 512MB RAM

Thanks for your help.

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Oh and i hear amd is good for gaming or is that true? And my budget is around 400 to 600 euro. Like i said i dont know alot of prices, i could be way off here....

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Sorry for all these add ons but im am new to this site. Here is an example of games that have to measure up to its requirements

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/9...

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Don't look at the latest games cause your ram, current processor isn't going to cut it.

If you want to play the latest games decently i'd suggest start building a new pc instead of investing more money into that one.