Sub-$1000 home/entertainment PC that can decently handle today’s games?

Question by ieatyouz: Sub-00 home/entertainment PC that can decently handle today’s games?
I’m not looking for a computer strictly for gaming (maybe I wouldn’t mind a Dell XPS) but I’m looking for more of a home/entertainment PC under $ 1000 that can handle today’s PC games (for example Crysis) at a “good enough” speed on middle to low settings.

The HP Media Center I’m using right now costed about $ 1300 when it was bought about 3 or 4 years ago, and looking at the specs vs prices on PCs today, this piece of crap would definitely not be worth the price (1.5gb ram, 300gb hd, shitty nvidia gpu)

Best answer:

Answer by Philip
For that, you can probably afford:

1 TB Hard Drive
4-8 GB Ram
2-4 core 2.2-2.4 Ghz Processor
NVidia 250 GTX

depending on where you go between the RAM and processor, you can vary the computer case, but that is also only if you are looking at Hardware and install your own OS

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