I'm sure I've explained to some of you the genuine level of awful which my PC is. I can't stress enough that it is possibly the worst machine in the history of literally everything. Well, to recap:

The computer was purchased (prebuilt) in late 2010 if I recall correctly (the model might be a little older, but I really don't care enough to check), so it has serious trouble running anything from later than 2011. That said, Skyrim is from 2011 and I get an average of 10-15fps at any given moment while playing it on medium settings. So it can barely even run games roughly from its own time. That's pretty goddamn pitiful, especially for a PC, which is supposed to be immensely fast, powerful, and durable. I tried playing competitive CS:GO with kro once and the game froze for a few minutes and then crashed, all while making an unnervingly loud buzzing/whirring sound and getting hotter than our Lord Gaben himself.

Ahem.

After five years of struggling through games on this piece of utter garbage, I've finally amassed enough money to get an actual f****** PC. I'm building it too, which will save me a lot of money and will improve the experience as a whole.*

With the help of kinectking (okay he did most of it I just sorta sat there awkwardly for thirty minutes) I used a site called PcPartPicker to find compatible parts for my budget of roughly $1000. It's extremely useful, and will probably be the first site most people will point you to if you ask them how to build a PC. It's incredibly customizable so you can mess around with the settings quite easily to meet your specific needs, and it of course keeps track of how much everything costs so you know if you went over your budget.

Here is my parts list for the PC (so not including peripherals like keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc., which will probably cost me another $200-ish; I want to pick those out in person). I'll list them here, but if you want more details just click on this link.

*CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor: $176.95
*CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler: $36.98 (-$10.00 for mail-in rebate)
*Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard: $69.89
*Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB ) DDR3-1600 Memory: $46.99
*Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive and** Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive: $97.95 and $47.99, respectively
*Graphics Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card: $329.99 (-$10.00 for mail-in rebate)
*Case: NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case: $49.99
*Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply: $69.99
*Optical Drive (for DVDs): Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer: $14.98
*Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit): $96.98 (-$10.00 for mail-in rebate)
*Wireless Network Adapter (for Internet): TRENDnet TEW-805UB 802.11a/b/g/n/ac USB 3.0 Wi-Fi Adapter: $19.99

Adding up to a grand total of $1028.67 (after mail-in rebates). Sounds like a lot, but I can guarantee you will not find a console nor a prebuilt PC that performs as well as this will for this price. I've ordered all the parts, so now the only thing left to do is to wait for them to arrive and physically put them together (it's like Legos but with a screwdriver). I am going to be having a lot of fun with this.

*In case you didn't know, prebuilt PCs are overcharged to hell and usually don't emphasize the parts they really should as much as they should, instead focusing on the only things people know about (like RAM! Yes, RAM is certainly important, but a graphics card is a lot more important, especially if I'm going to be constantly playing games at high settings).
**The Solid State Drive (SSD) has no moving parts so it's very fast. Like, a Skyrim loading screen that would take five minutes on a regular Hard Drive (HDD) will take five seconds (not an exaggeration) on an SSD. I'll be keeping my important stuff on my SSD such as the Operating System, Steam, Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online when I get it probably, and other stuff that I will use a lot. On my HDD I'll be keeping stuff like photos and documents which I don't care about loading instantly quite as much.

Hah! Your first paragraph is complaining about how bad your computer is... But it can run Skyrim at all. That's about 10k times better than my computer!

Be sure to make some french fries out of your old PC once you get the new one up and running.  

U must be quite rich Atvelonis to buy so many expensive computer components, as for me, I am fine with my 14 year old Palm Personal Pilot PC Assistant, with 256 KBs of Ram, and a two colour display of Computer Green and Black.

prebuilt PCs aren't nearly as overpriced as they were, but its valuable knowing how to put together a PC and you still save (a much smaller than before) something

idk much about computers but i run windows vista