An gaming computer is a finely tuned gaming platform, custom designed and hand built to meet every requirement of the discriminating gamer. It harnesses the intense graphics processing power of Nvidia SLI technology, the most high performance mother board designs, over clocked Intel. This has 45nm core2 duo processors, blazing fast Solid State hard drives, and low latency OCZ DDR2 ram packed into our sleek, custom liquid cooled system. It is a must have gaming platform designed for the elite who push their rigs to the very limits of performance. To build a gaming computer, you have to know how to balance your components for best performance. If budget is no concern, then you are lucky and the job is easy. For the rest of us, it about knows which parts of the computer are most stressed during gaming, and giving budget priority to those parts. The items to focus on, in order of importance, are: 1) Video card: A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to generate and output images to a display. It operates on similar principles as a sound card or other peripheral devices. With the GeForce 6 series, Nvidia had clearly moved beyond the DX9 performance issues that plagued the previous generation. The GeForce 6 series not only performed competitively where Direct 3D shaders were concerned, but also supported DirectX Shader Model 3.0. This proved an insignificant advantage, mainly because games of that period did not employ extensions for Shader Model 3.0. 2) ram: This is a form of computer data storage. Today it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any order (i.e., at random). 3) CPU: A less common but increasingly important paradigm of CPUs (and indeed, computing in general) deals with data parallelism. The processors discussed earlier are all referred to as some type of scalar device. In short, with gaming computers you will want to give a lot of priority to your video card since it does most of the work, but with enough power in the rest of the system to support it to its Package potential. If you do not get enough ram, your games will bog down, and if you do not get a fast enough CPU, you would not be using your video card to its Package potential. The choices for the rest of your gaming computer are essentially secondary to these three components.