Gadgetory

due to the nature of building a custom computer you may find compatibility issues with the following parts list today mu with the next in my series of computer build videos this time at the six hundred dollar price point for a very reasonable amount you will be able to build yourself a gaming PC they can run most any game on the market today at high or even max graphics settings the starting point is going to be an intel core i3 2100 as one of the new sandy bridge cpus this features a dual core design clocked at 3.1 gigahertz which combined with hyper-threading and some Intel magic makes for CPU that will match if not exceed many older generation quad core processors for 125 dollars for a motherboard we're going to use the biostar th 67 plus since the i3 2100 is incapable of overclocking anyway we can save some nice cash by going with an h 67 board you still get a nice variety of features including four slots of ddr3 RAM a pair of say 236 gigabit per second ports along with foresight of two ports and two USB 3 all on a micro ATX board for $90 the graphics card for the build is a XFX radeon 5770 this is an outstanding last generation GPU that features directx11 support and 850 megahertz core clock along with one hdmi port a DisplayPort and two DVI connectors in addition it comes with the fantastic XFX lifetime warranty and great customer service this will run you 105 dollars after rebate for the memory will use a pair of 2 gigabyte p and wide ram sticks for a total of four gigabytes each stick is clocked at 1333 megahertz in dual channel for this build this is more than sufficient for most games out there and leaves room for adding additional memory in the future if you need it not bad for thirty seven dollars after a mail-in rebate six hundred dollars isn't quite enough to afford a SSD and are billed so we're going to use a seagate barracuda 7200 RPM hard drive with 500 gigabytes of capacity this is a good compromise between speed and size and is a great deal for forty dollars currently a DVD burner is certainly optional these days however it's still a useful feature so we'll use a light on CD DVD burner for 21 dollars although we can easily cheap out and get a micro ATX case integrated power supply instead we're going to use an antec 300 ATX mid tower case and thermaltake tr2 500 watt power supply by spending the extra money we get a larger higher-quality case giving lots of room for future upgrades in addition to plenty overhead as far as powder is concerned $85 for the pair after rebates isn't half bad last but not least we have a shiny new system builder copy of windows 7 home premium 64-bit if you already have a copy of Windows you can easily skip out on this but either wise this will run you a cool one hundred dollars so how much did we end up burning through the debit card as of april 26 2011 the entire list will run you 592 dot eighty-seven cents after all mail and rebates and combo offers on newegg com of course since this is a custom build feel free to customize it to your own liking but overall if you're interested in PC gaming this should get you up and running with a nice rig without breaking the bank