I plan on getting myself a new PC, because my current laptop is quite the toaster. There are a lot of games, which aren't that demanding at all, but which it can't run nevertheless. Just to show you how terrible my laptop is, here are some of its specifications:
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7500G
CPU: AMD A6-4455M APU
RAM: 8GB
Btw, I don't have any kind of knowledge about computer hardware. To find out, if my laptop meets the requirements for a game, I usually use a "can I run it" website, as I'm unable to judge whether the parts listed in the requirements are superior to my laptop's interior or not.
Regarding the budget, I have ca. 1100 € available by now, of which I'll have to pay the PC, peripherals, the OS and a new antivirus program, for my current one is often causing quite noticeable performance drops (which has a great influence when your average FPS is somewhere around ten). Maybe you can provide some tips there as well...
The next time I get pocket money, in a month or so, I could possibly raise the budget to approx. 1200 €, depending on how much influence the additional 100 € will have...
To improve the gaming experience on my laptop at least a little bit, I bought an asus S240HLbid screen and a Speedlink Kudos Z-9 Mouse some time ago, but I don't know whether these are sufficient as gaming peripherals for the new PC, or if I shall buy new ones. Apart from the two mentioned objects, I don't own any other peripherals since I'm still mostly using the laptop integrated components.
Concerning the games I want to play, I haven't quite decided yet. At the moment, I rather look into a variety games, to determine which MMO I want to invest my time in. I'm also watching gaming review channels (e.g. TheLazyPeon, TheHiveLeader, The Orange Hatter, ...) in order not to have to download every MMO out there and try 'em all by myself. But, unfortunately, the most promising ones are to challenging for my laptop. Therefore, there are many games I can't give a try.
But to give you a rough idea of what I would be interested in, I'll list you the games I wanna check out:
GW2, Star Citizen, FFXIV, Revelation Online, Wildstar, Pantheon Rise of the fallen, WoW, Crowfall, Tree of Savior, SWTOR, Forsaken Ledgends, Rift and propably some others I forgot to mention here. There are also several interesting offline game series which I would like to play (e.g. Assassins Creed, Final Fantasy, ...).
In the read me thread about what information to provide whan requesting a computer build, there was also asked for other special activities I use my computer for. As much as I would be interested in learning video rendering or animation, it is extremely unlikely that I'll find time to do so. Therefore, you won't have to take that in concern. Here and then, I try some music composing, but I didn't get very far with that either.
What I spend the biggest amount of time in front of my PC, beside gaming, is to watch videos, or even more, listen to music. Often, I turn off the ingame music and instead listen to other orchestral scores while playing. Maybe I'll buy a surround-sound system for that later on... Maybe...
Now, I think the only thing I haven't mentioned yet is where I live, to enable you to calculate the taxes. So at the moment I live in Germany and it's likely for me to stay here for the foreseeable future - though I would like to travel the world someday...
As I've already mentioned nationality, it seems to me the correct timing to apologise for any bad english that propably occured. I'm far away from spending enough time on improving my english skills...
I hope this was enough information from my side. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.