$500 Gaming Computer? (Laptop or Desktop)

For my birthday, I wanted a gaming laptop or desktop, and my mom's budget is $500. Anyone know of a good one?

get a desktop, you won't get anything goodout of a laptop for 500 bucks

lol $500 laptops are netbooks.....

Are you allowed to build it yourself?

For $500, its hard to find a preassembled desktop that's good.

Yeah, I could assemble the one on Maximum PC...

The problem is finding the parts they listed. I can't seem to find any of them in stock anywhere.

Yah, you have to go with a desktop if you want to get anything but crap for under $500. Gaming laptops are twice as expensive as gaming desktops.

Do you have a monitor, keyboard, operating system, speakers and a mouse, or does that stuff also have to be included in the price?

Included. Sadly.

My mom has just decided to raise her budget to under 900, so...

You'll still want a desktop. A half-decent gaming laptop will cost at least a thousand.

Desktops are far superior to laptops for gaming, buy one of those or build your own.

ang, not really, the only thing that makes them superior is price point

Well, after telling my mom building one would be cheaper, she decided it would be a good project for me. :/. If anyone has a decently cheap and good parts list and tutorial, that would be nice.

Nocbl2 wrote:Well, after telling my mom building one would be cheaper, she decided it would be a good project for me. :/. If anyone has a decently cheap and good parts list and tutorial, that would be nice.

I have one for under a thousand bucks, I don't if you want the build though.

I can put together an updated list for you tomorrow, if you want.