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Help with purchasing a new pc?

Here's the deal. I have an old Acer Pc which is not at all worth an upgrade and an HP laptop which i wont be able to upgrade(i mean graphics and processor). i am able to play games that are a year old on the laptop but it produces too much heat which i think is not good so i stopped gaming on it. Should i buy a new PC because technology upgrade never ends and my laptop is just 2 years old. Another thing to consider is that i am going to singapore next month and i have heard that this stuff is pretty cheap there. I could buy spares off cheaply and get it assembled here.i have another option of buying a ps3 but i want a new pc for my school work too. i work on c++ and am programming something large which both the PCs aren't able to handle fast. And yea i am lookin something around these specs: intel i5 760 nvidia geforce gtx 460 1Gig 750 gig hard drive 6 gb ram compitible sli motherboard for future upgrades. I am a moderate gamer and i want to buy somethin i should not need a upgrade for 1-2 years and upgradable in future. make your suggestions of buyin a new pc or should i stick with the present one right now and wait for about 6 months? if you think i should buy a new one what should i do in the situation. i have some knowledge about hardware but i am not a pro... Thanks in advance....

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1. I think that you should buy a Sony Vaio, i am a big fan of them as i have never had a problem with them, all the software are available, and most of all if you can customize your own. I would recommend the E-series, but if you want Entertainment you should choose from the F-series but the battery is quickly used in the F-Series, another reason is because you are going to Singapore, the company is known worldwide, you could easily get help if anything does wrong.
2. Don't contemplate "waiting" for newer components. That cycle will continue forever. Yes, in three months, the ATI Evergreen series of GPU will come out. Months after that, nVidia will have a response. Then after that, and after that, and after that, and.... If you want one, get one now. There's only a few guarantees electronics can make: 1. They work. 2. They perform to spec. I can't say that you won't need an upgrade just by buying certain components, even the most expensive ones. I'm guessing that as a moderate gamer, you don't care about top of the line graphics anyways--which is a good thing. If I were you, I'd just get one new, made up of: Intel i5 750 2x GTX 460 1 GB (great SLI scaling...absolutely incredible) 2x 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD in RAID 0 (good performance) 6 GB RAM SLI-capable motherboard 750W PSU and all the other extras That's just about it. All together it'd run you around $1200 from Newegg, and it's a really powerful computer at that. Don't go to Singapore to bring parts back--it's not worth it, and you're going to use more money to safely pack them up and bring them back. Best of luck.