Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
I just did an entire computer w/ case, keyboard, mouse, and monitor for under $500. It was a bare-bones fileserver with no GPU whatsoever, but if I can built a complete server box for under $500, it should be easy to build a gamer rig for under $1k.
I did a custom gaming rig 2 years ago, which ended up amounting to $1,500 or so. That still plays modern games at basically max resolution (if not on ultra setting, it will play them on high-very high).

Those pieces of hardware would be far cheaper or have better versions at around the same cost now. So getting a decent rig for that price is do-able without too much hassle.

As for DVD drives/ Hardrives etc, they are dirt-cheap anyway. What costs is the motherboard + CPU and the Graphics cards.