Mr.Quiggles

Absolutely agreed. I guess we may not know in the case of Mr. Williams, we do know he was battling with alcoholism however. Very upsetting.

I don't disagree, but I suppose one could make the case that under the influences of Alcohol and/or Drugs, it can make somebody make irrational decisions like suicide.

Oh Captain my Captain! *Salutes*

Not bad, especially coming from Best Buy. AMD I don't know too much about, good CPU is important (I recommend Intel) because GTAIV is a CPU Intensive game. GPU is pretty good. The bottleneck is probably the hard drive, if you were looking to upgrade you could try buying like a 120GB SSD for GTAIV and your OS, and the rest of your data would go on a HDD, up to you though, just a thought.

Jesus! At first glance I thought it was $999, but no, multiply that 10. But I must agree with unr3al, one could build a desktop with those specs for like $1200 - $1400. Even considering the cost of R & D, somebody building it for you, company's profits margins, and the fact that it's a mobile device, still doesn't even come close to cutting it.

I think they'll stay within the continental United States, most likely another West Coast city. It's just the style of the game. Shooting games in Canada? Europe? Israel???? PLEASE. I would totally dig Las Vegas. It's right up the game's theme of modern sex, drugs, and violence in a deteriorating city. Also, Area 51 isn't that far off there on the Nevada Test Site. I could see a Florida city too.

You can always buy a mATX based gaming computer, it's much more portable. However you still need a monitor keyboard and mouse. Just a suggestion. Not to reiterate what everyone else said, but if you're going with anything labeled "Gaming" get ready to dish out $800 - $2000. Laptops are always going to be more expensive for less specs. However if that's the route for you, MSI, ASUS, and Lenovo would be good brands I'd look into purchasing equipment from. I do not recommend Alienware, Dell in general, and HP either.

I probably wouldn't live, I live on the outskirts in a suburb of a city already riddled with violence. However Westover Air Reserve Base is nearby, which during World War II was the largest military installation in the North Eastern USA. It was built with the infrastructure for atomic weapons which it housed, bombers, internal oil ect. However with budget cuts, today it only houses part time F-15s and 12 C5's. :( I don't think either a military instrallation, city, hospital, suberbs or anywhere populated would protect you. Someone like Reibu, isolated on an island, in a rural section with plentiful food seems like one of the best areas to hold out. If there's active fighting with zombies and/or people on a daily basis, you've already lost.

Maybe our demeanor wasn't clear enough, so I'll post it point blank. Matt you really should not have posted here, I'm not telling you what and not to do but the entirety of this post is nothing but a way for you to try and prop up your Israeli Patriotism which is fantastic for you, but keep it to yourself and yourself only. Your overwhelming bias and arguing fiercely against our opinions does not contribute at all towards a healthy debate. Please, just drop it.

This is like talking to a Russian who says "Ukraine is ours", sure it's your opinion. But the entire world disagrees with you. *rolls eyes* Israel should not launch military action nor should it give them justification over 3 kidnapped teenagers.

Just took a photo of that light setup just yesterday. I believe this is it.

I did mention depending on your internet speeds, but for a lot of people especially in my area, downloads often max out on a traditional 5400-7600 RPM HDD (100% utilization versus an SSD 20% or so utilization). I do honestly think an SSD is an essential piece of hardware for any new computer, as of right now in the computer world, Hard Drives are the bottleneck of systems (there's always a bottleneck) but that is your decision. OS is OK. I can't really find an 3rd or 4th gen i5 with the $100 pricetag, so I guess you'll have to go with the i3.

The RAM is much better now. In computers, 2 is always better than 1, even if the 2 are worse than the 1. The reason I say mATX is unpopular is because it's quite limited on what it can do, because it is so small. It's really designed for people who bring their computers to and from places, and doesn't have too much upgradable space. However, it you think it suits what you need, then I don't really see an issue with it. An SSD does lot more than improve boot times, the SSD would make everything you put on it faster, depending on your download speeds, you could download things faster for example. Games would run at a higher FPS, more programs could be running, everything would be snappier ect ect. I highly recommend one, but it is up to you. Also, what OS are you intending on using? I saw you already have it but I'm just curious. Hardware can vary depending on the OS. And what is your budget? Like what's the max you're willing to spend on a CPU? I don't recall it being ever mentioned.

If you're going with 8GB of RAM, I recommend 2x 4GB Sticks instead of 1x 8GB stick. I can't really help you on the GPU, AMD is not my specialty. Usually people don't go with mATX, but if you'd like to I suppose that's ok. And of course as usual, the weak link is this build is the fact that there's a hard drive. If your budget allows it, try looking into a 120GB SSD for the entire system (if you don't use much space like recording, movies ect) or possibly buying both together and put the OS on the SSD and whatever else you can decide where to put it on. EDIT: The guy above is right, I'd recommend at least a 3rd or 4th gen i5 Quad Core processor, again, I can't help you with AMD, I never thought their products were any good.