On the hunt for a new computer

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Hello.
I am on the hunt for a new computer I have decided buying it in store would be ridiculously overpriced
I live in Australia so I will need somewhere that can ship it.
I would like to be able to play skyrim and atleast not lag or shut down from overheating problems.

I currently have these system details
intel core i.5 460m processor
Nvidia GeForce GT420 - which doesn't help trying to play games and I was told it wouldn't matter :/
4 gb ddr3 memory. I would like to have 8 to 16gb it would be nice
500gb HDD... would be nice to have a Terabyte
and I don't need a screen either or a mouse or keyboard

also I would like to have a similar system to this one that I had found but couldn't get in Australia

2013 Paladin Dr. I
1 x Case ( NZXT Guardian 921 RB Gaming Case - Blue )
1 x Processor ( Intel® Core™ i7 3820 Processor (4x 3.60GHz/10MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core i7 3820 )
1 x Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [Intel] - Standard 120mm Fan )
1 x Memory ( 16 GB [4 GB X4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand )
1 x Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 - 2GB - EVGA Superclocked - Free Upgrade to EVGA FTW Series - Single Card )
1 x Video Card Brand ( Major Brand Powered by AMD or NVIDIA )
1 x Motherboard ( Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 -- 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16 )
1 x Power Supply ( 500 Watt - Standard )
1 x Primary Hard Drive ( 2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )
1 x Optical Drive ( [12X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black )
1 x Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )
1 x Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) )
1 x Operating System ( Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit )

Please help a game out in need to play hours of games and not just 1 heheh

Or even something like this
Would this do the job??
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/intel-Core-i ... b6b&_uhb=1

Building your own computer is ok if you want to know how to put it together and understand how it works, but the price could be similar to buying one from an OEM. Also if anything goes wrong with it, you're in charge of supporting it since you wouldn't have any company to call if any components break or malfunction. I'm only saying this as general advice and not turning you away from building a computer since its a great project.

Try this website, http://pcper.com It's called PC Perspective and its run by Ryan Shrout who hosts a show on the TWiT network called This Week in Computer Hardware. It's an info site on PC components and building computers.

I just saw you posted a link after I posted this. The specs look good, it's more than enough to run high end games. Get at least 8 gigs of RAM and get an SSD drive since they are faster in R/W times than a 7200RPM spinning drive but it doesn't hurt to have a spinning drive as well.

And a graphics card is a must because integrated graphics use the on board RAM and sap resources, not good for playing high end games, most require dedicated video RAM.

1) You wont save much building your own. But you DO get to pick parts..

2) Newegg.com

3) Most parts come with their seperate manufacturer warantees// If anything does go horribly wrong newegg is awesome for fixing issues. Futureshop was a lot harder to deal with for me..

I used to build all my machines (am an EE) because I wanted to be able to spec it myself. No more.

Try this site: Magic Micro

I buy all my PCs here. You can pretty much spec whatever you choose and last I checked was cheaper than building my own (particularly when you consider the time needed to build it).

I can't speak for Australia in particular but building your own machine is your best bet. Fortunately, building your own machine is much easier than it used to be. Parts these days are essentially "plug and play". For example I remember building 10 years ago and spending hours tracking down problems with the jumpers of an old IDE hard drive; now with SATA, the drives are faster and they pretty much "work" when plugged in. If you can use a screwdriver, you can build a computer.

I use a site called pcpartpicker to compare prices for parts -- looks like there's an Australian version you can check out: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/.

The specs on the pre-built machine look really good. Do you need an i7 though? I understand Skyrim is CPU intensive but if you're just gaming an Ivy Bridge i5 should be more than enough, and you can use the savings to upgrade the GPU. However if you're building from scratch you'll probably need to upgrade the stock cooler.