hey i am wanting to purchase a machine, used to build them all the time until i bought a lappy, building a pc just for pure gaming purposes, what i am after is a few sites that will give a detailed description on hardware e.g www.tomshardware.co.uk if you can give me a list of all your site that would help me i would be greatful.

thank you so much !!

http://www.bit-tech.net/

Though you have to dig through their forums to find the old articles that are not on the main page anymore.