Home Built Gaming PC

[NINman]

This is more of a poll.

I am looking to build a budget gaming system. I would like to hear the specs of your PC. Mainly just so I can get an idea as to what I should get and to do some research on. I have been a Senior PC Technician for 6 years and know quite a bit, though I am new to overclocking.

So let the bragging begin (For a good cause)

Thanks
NINman

[Sokkan]

My rig is not impressive at all, but it does the job :)

See my specs below... Guess it's pretty cheap now. If you can find old stuff like that CPU and mobo, that is :)

[PsYko420]

See my sig for a rig that should work (mine doesn't though =[)

[_Will_]

Originally posted by PsYko420
See my sig for a rig that should work (mine doesn't though =[)

Yeah pysko definately has one bad*** rig. :D

Mines working out pretty well for me still, although a DDR board would do wonders...or even some better pc133 ram....

[adamtekh]

all i need is a better video card , oh and an optical mouse those do wonders for gameing , and yeah some ddr ram will bost my proformance , nice thing about the A7A 266 it can use both

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I have 3 machines...all 933's with anywhere from 256 to 768 megs of memory. All 3 have GF GTS cards 32meg DDR, and live or audigy sound cards. They all run VERY well, and I never see a glitch. All 3 also have DVD players w/o decoder cards......runs smooth as glass.

You don't need a monster to play even the hottest of games.

[funnyperson1]

I have what you see in my sig and it plays all games i have put up against it fairly well....

Heres waht i suggest:

ECS K7S5A, Epox8KHA+, ASUS A7V-266E(50-150$)
Duron900/Athlon1GHZ(50-70$)
Geforce2Ti/Radeon7500(100$)
256 Crucial DDR(50$)
Millenium Glaciator(20$)
Antec Case(100$)
17" CRT Monitor(140$)

that is a very nice system for about 500-650$, should play most gaems for some time....

[Akumu X]

Definately don't need alot to run the games these day. Being the computer components are so cheap. What's the highest minimum req game out there now? 600 P3/K7 128mb ram 3rd gen vid card, now you want some power...then it's like the guy above posted for about 6large. It's all good. My rig does it's job...reasonably well I might add...

[-=HN=- Wild9]

Antec Sx 1240 (might be a lookalike case:mad: )
Soyo k7v Dragon kt266 chipset
Tbird 1.4 @ 1.6 ghz
512 megs pc2100 DDR
Geforce 2 MX 400
30 gig maxtor hd
16x dvd rom
350 watt enhance psu

hey it will pump out the FPS in RTCW!!

[Yodums]

I'm looking at canadian prices so I'll try my best to make them USD.
I'd recommend:


AMD Athlon XP 1600+ about 90-100USD
Asus A7V266 DDR - 115 USD
256 DDR PC2100 - Cheap OFC
Visiontek Xctasy Ti200 or Radeon 7500 - 100USD
Glaciator II - 20USD
Antec SX830 Tower w/ 300W PS - 70USD

Total adds up to about 450 USD and some tax thats a real good bargain if you ask me.

[MrOOBiLL]

Main rig in my signature, no game can make it sweat. :)

[NINman]

Thanks for all the replys and keep them coming. So far I like what I see. Done a little reseach on the cases and I like the Antec's. Thanks a lot. Once I rebuild I will have 3 PC's and one I will setup for SETI@Home which I have been running on my work PC. Anyone else out there with a KICK A$$ Gaming Machine? Lets see them!!!!!!


/\/|/\/man

[Arkaine23]

Budget machine: Athlon T-bird 1.0 GHZ @ 1.1, Shuttle AK31 v3.1, Ati Radeon 7200, 256 MB PC2100 crucial DDR, SB 16, Volcano2 HSF, WD 30 Gig HDD, 56x cd, floppy, keyboard, optical mouse, etc.

@$450 w/o monitor

Performance machine: @ $850 w/o monitor. see signature

[Wicked Klown]

I have what you see in my Sig, the only thing I'll be changing is the the MoBo and video card and ram. I'll be putting in a new SoYo Dragon Plus, a Xtasy 5564 64m.b., and a 256m.b. DDR from Crucial. The ram and the video card I already have it was in another rig. So far I have yet to see a game I can't play.

[JimmyG]

The problem with PsYcho's rig is he is RAM happy. 512 MB is max anyone would need except a CAD person.

[forgoten]

check eeet out! belew

[Sonny]

It's all in the sig:beer: If there was just one thing I were allowed to change then it would be the video card to something that'll allow me to play games with a resolution of at least 1280 X 1024 & not slow down:beer:

[Silversinksam]

My best advise is to shop around and look for deals, Even here in the Overclockers.com's Classified section (http://overclockers.cssftware.com/ads/cacgi.exe/?action=Show) on the front page you can get some serious bargains, Ill breakdown my gaming rig and what I paid:


PIII 1000eb @1125 -Got this new on Ebay for $125 about 6 months ago

JustCooler Pc remote control -Also on Ebay $19.99

XP pro - free- went to a Seminar

Abit SH6 (Thanks Skip) I bought a bunch of stuff from Skip and sold all but the MOBO and RAM Mobo end cost $40

Alpha 3125 $25 was a special sale item at the time

512megs OCZ pc150 From the multiple purchase from Skip $20

Radeon 8500 w/customized Alpha pal 15u /Copper ramsinks with silver baseplates -------- $200 on Ebay, 28.99 for the Alpha(retail outlet) Silver baseplates on everything I havent calculated nor am I planning on calculating, as thats just icing :)

Coolermaster ATC110 Case Now this was a sweet deal at a pc show I went to it was the only one and the back was dented and I cut that area out anyway for exit air They wanted $125 and I offered him $100 and he accepted......Apparently he didnt know the true value but I did!

50gig Hdd (30&20 WD) 20 was from old pc and I paid $89 at Best Buy for the 30 with 2 rebates

Digldoc Paid full retail $59

Nec 21" Defunct internet comapany firesale on a brand new monitor $155+45 shipping

Klipsch 2.1's $150 at Best buy on sale



SubTotal $957

Add the Enermax 431 I got on Ebay new for $60 and a bunch of rheostats, Fans, DVD, CDRW and various Bricka brack, and It cost me about $1200 for everything.



If you shop around you will win every time.