First I must admit that I’m not much of a PC gamer. Console gaming is more my thing, Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation and handheld consoles like the sony PSP and Nintendo DS. The closest I have to a gaming computer was a Tapwave Zodiac, and that is a gaming handheld computer, which doesn’t count with these mean machines.
I do see the attraction with PC Gaming (as opposed to console gaming): the actual hardware and software tweaks made to the Gaming PC are going to have some influence on whether or not you win.

The first gaming PC I’ll look at is one CNET refers to as “upper midrange“. For me this would be beyond my upper range, but I enjoy going over the specs of these PCs the way I would a Porsche 911 Carrera.
The gaming PC in question is the Velocity Micro Edge Z-55, it has an Intel Core i7 (Quad-core) processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, and the CPU has been overclocked to 3.0GHz. The machine uses 64-bit Windows Vista. Oh yes, and 2 (that’s right two)  512MB ATI Radeon Graphics cards. Finish that off with a 500 or 750GB hard drive, and this is one fast machine.