i built my current rig for around $280 it plays the newest games on high settings at 1080p. Its rocking a AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3.5gHz processor, Kingston 8GB DDR3 Ram, Nvidia 640 GT 2GB Videcard, Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Motherboard, 1TB Harddrive and 500gb HD, Ultra 650watt power supply. Both the processor and video card can take alot of over clocking but i havent had to yet, it runs everything smoothly