I'm using an Alienware Aurora right now, its pretty sweet, but there's no reason to spend that much to just game. just make sure you have a legit power supply (for future upgrades), and spend most of your money on the CPU (3rd generation i7). For RAM get about 10GB, and a 2GB GPU (don't waste money on a 3D card IMO), and make sure that card can be easily doubled up on, so in the future you can just buy that same identical graphics card and use both GPUs simultaneously.
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