My computer is a mess right now, bought for $1000 CAD later upgraded with a GeForce GTX 260 video card ($300 at the time) all from Tiger Direct. It was good at first, but now I deal with blue screens of deaths and having to set all settings in games to low, including having every brush stroke in Photoshop CS6 it's own laggy nightmare. of course it later upset me when i see a cousin of mine can run any game he wants with maximum settings and 80fps+ with even less money on his built computer ($1000).
The people at TigerDirect basically took advantage of me and sold me crap because I didnt know anything about computers. :*D

So i would like to do much more research before i get a new computer, but very few results for people who focus on digital painting with games as well. I have heard Graphic Design and other things require lots of RAM and other things games dont need too much of. I still know very little about computers but i at least understand $1000 can get me more than an under-average family desktop now.

In general, I want to run things like the following:
-Photoshop CS6 with little-no lag (painting with brushes especially)
-Paint Tool Sai
-Vindictus
-CSGO
-B&S China

I usually not care about setting everything to the highest with crazy high FPS, but it would give me comfort knowing i can run games today (Assassin's Creed IV, Battlefield 4, Thief, Titanfall) at the high with around 60FPS.

I dont mean to sound unrealistic, I just thought it is possible because of people doing crazy things like this:
www.gamespot.com/articles/can-…
which my current computer cant even compare to in performance. ;-;

Thank you for your time!