Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

[Xetsuei]

Is it worth it to buy 4gigs of RAM for my setup? I'm getting really crappy stuttering problems in Crysis and was wondering if more ram would help.

How fast is your current RAM? And it sounds like you need a better video card, not more RAM.

E: Oh wait, the card is fine. I honestly have no idea unless you're RAM is really slow. It's possibly the drivers. Update the drivers for your video card.

I'm totally computer inept, I don't know shit about them. I need a new pc for undisclosed reasons. I went to best buy to look at prices, and it was looking like I would end up spending about 1200 dollars. So I come to you guys, what should I be looking for?

• I am looking for a desktop
• I found the monitor I want, its going to cost about $250 so count that out
• I want to be able to run higher end games, I'm tired of getting a bsod playing even old games like UT2K4 and Halo CE. I can't even install orange box or anything newer than that. I want to be able to run new games.
• I want to make sure I can still use my old games, plus my outdated version of max and mudbox. Their too frickin expensive to buy again
• I need basically everything except the fuckin mouse, and the monitor which I found and have not bought yet.

Help me please. The tech talk on the front page is greek to me. I'm looking to either build my own or buy it built, I don't care as long as I can afford it and it WORKS.

The Low End ($700) or the Mid Range ($1000) and the peripherals for them lower down the page. Also, what monitor are you getting?