Pc games on intel imac 1.83 ghz

Oh please help I'm so confused. We're all mac, have been for twenty years, but my son wants to play some pc games and I'm giving in. I know this is supposed to be possible. This is what I think I know so far. I can buy parallels. I then have to buy windows. I may need more memory? He has 1 GB but of course has a ton of mac games on there already. What I'm afraid of is the processing speed, will it be fast enough? and the graphics, is it powerful enough? I know absolutely nothing about PCs and hope to not have to buy one. Please tell me in really simple terms exactly what to do and if it will work well. I did start to look into refurbished (hoping for cheap) PCs but got overwhelmed immediately. I've been blissfully unaware of just how easy being a mac owner is. His birthday is coming up soon, any advice you can give me, soon, will be greatly appreciated!

Ah. To run the games on his it looks like about 300 for windows plus 150. for memory. Boot Camp is free, so under 500.
To buy the refurbished iMac 2.0 is 850.
But of course I could take his year-old one and be pretty happy for a long time (I don't do much more than email, internet, and photos).
I think it's going to be more of a parenting kind of question. How much do we want to encourage the gaming? He already does a lot, there are plenty of mac games out there. The difference, the reason I'm trying to make it work, is that there are pc games that can be modified and that's something he's really into. I kind of like the idea of him being able to mod and create. He spent some time at a computer camp this summer at MIT doing just modding. Seems a shame he can't keep it up.
Then, speaking of the camp, is the question of 3D programs. He loved the 3D classes. I've looked into 3D programs for mac and the one to go with seems to be Lightwave. Their version for the newer intel macs is still in beta, hopefully it will be out for Christmas. I've been told he may need more processing speed for that, too.
So, now I think I've hit you with the whole deal. What do you think?

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