Hello all!...I'm new here so forgive me if this is the wrong place to put this...

I had posted this on insanelymac...but I think they just delete the thread with out notifying me...it got 4 visits and then was just gone lol.

Anyway this is what I asked there so I'll ask here...there may be more to follow.

Hello all, I have an iMac and have been enjoying it...but I've found trying to run EQ2 / Rift...that my FPS just plain suck. I've talked to others and found that upgrading the iMac is out of the question, and thus need a more powerful machine.

So here I have a couple of questions...

Should I bother with OS X anymore? I love OS X...but I need a machine that can handle gaming / 3d modeling ( both are heavy on resources ).

Should I build a rig...or buy a mac pro ( perhaps an older one ) and upgrade that?

Being a novice...should I even try to build a gaming hackintosh? Should I just stick to a win 7 x64 OS / Linux?

Does anyone suggest a place to get a gaming pc built if I decide that I should not attempt to build one?

Thank you for any replies, I'm sure I'll have more to ask.

Edit: This is a late 09 iMac. I can list the specs if anyone would like.