[Davis0079]

Heres the deal kid, make sure to get a dual or quad core proccessor, the intel multi thread i5 & i7 are really good but probly out of your price range. But if you can get your hands on a rig that has one, do it for sure. Dont worry so much about hard drives and ram, unless you plan on building your own rig. Anything pre assembled will most likely come with 500gigs or more of hard drive space and 4 gigs of ram. These two numbers for rom(hard drive space) and ram are the average. The real deal is if you get a new computer with pci-e slots make sure to save a little money for your graphics card and get a 260gt or up to a 285gt card. These will run from $150 to $350, but this is your real gaming power. A quad core from walmart with a 260gt installed($150 online) will rock any game on the market right now. I say this because I have a q6600 quad core overclocked to 3.2ghz with SLI(dual) 9500gt cards and a single 260gt card will smoke my rig. Now when I get the money I can install two 260gt's and will be that much futher ahead, but for IL-2 and most normal applications, you will never need two graphics cards. For a buget, go to Best Buy and get a $500 rig. Then get a really good card and be done with it. Its like having a car. You can buy a new one and have a really nice car or you can build one for alot of money and have a hot rod. For the price range you suggested I would buy a new one and get back to playing.