my gaming rig!

[kiwi_2005]

I didn't want to spend more than a grand found this one on auction here Been wanting to play SH5 properly since it came out but had to QQ for months cause the pc I have spits the dummy. Good enough for WoW and SH3 & 4 but bad for SH5.

okay its not top of the line when it comes to gaming rigs but this beauty will play SH5. :hmmm:

Paying tonight waiting for courier to arrive before Christmas! Gonna be a long wait... :haha:

Costs $679 - no monitor/kb/mouse just the box. Good enough for me. As i have spare gear lying around.

Criticism welcome. Might upgrade to Windows 7 later in the New Year

Specs :rock:


Xeon platform coupled with the nVidia 9800GT DX 10 Graphics card

Super Micro X7DAE High performance Motherboard

2 x Intel dual core Xeon 5130 at2.0 Ghz EACH.8.0GHZ Dual 771-pin LGA Sockets 2 physical CPUs, 4 physical cores.
* 4 gb High preformance ram memory 6 slots free)
* 3 x 80gb SATA Hdd
* 1 x 250 gb SATA Hdd
Raid compatible disks

nVidia Ge force 9800GT ddr3,
3D compatible
PHYSX compatible

* 6 x sata ports
* Built-in SATA-II Raid
* DVD-RW
* 2 x PCI-e slots
* Dual 1Gigabit NIC ports
* 6 x USB 2.0 ports
Dual 771-pin LGA Sockets

Sockets Supports Intel 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon Processor 5300 sequence

Windows Xp Pro SP3 installed, XPP COA.

*Warranty 30 Days

[Castout]

Pretty expensive considering what you're getting Frank. Yea my budget for a rig is also about a thousand bucks. If you spend more the excess tech will become cheaper in the next 6 months hence wasting money.

I prefer to build my gaming rig always. Waaay cheaper that way and you get far more powerful Jedi I mean PC cough cough, but if you're happy then I guess it's just fine.

Spent about 600 bucks for the following
Gigabyte Ultra durable(all solid capacitor) Motherboard
3x2 Gb DDR3
i5 661 2 cores 4 threads at 3.33GHz (I know it's a mistake)
1 T 7200rpm HDD
1 DVD-RW
A case

I'll be buying the GTX460 and a new mid-end 700W PSU in February. I intentionally want to use far higher rated PSU in the hope it will last longer and provide a far more stable power to the rig.



Congrats on the new rig but I don't have high hopes for Silent Hunter V honestly. I'm waiting for Shogun 2 Total War and Dragon Age 2. Been playing Dragon Age Origins again these past couple days too. It's a great game. My quest to get Mass Effect 2 for the holiday has failed..there's no more genuine copy available.

[FIREWALL]

How big of PSU came with it Kiwi ?

Don'tcha just hate waiting for Santa to arrive. :DL

Enjoy your new rig. :yep:...:up:

[kiwi_2005]

How big of PSU came with it Kiwi ?

Don'tcha just hate waiting for Santa to arrive. :DL

Enjoy your new rig. :yep:...:up:

750 watt PSU ( Thermaltake Evo Blue) :salute:

[kiwi_2005]

Pretty expensive considering what you're getting Frank. Yea my budget for a rig is also about a thousand bucks. If you spend more the excess tech will become cheaper in the next 6 months hence wasting money.

I prefer to build my gaming rig always. Waaay cheaper that way and you get far more powerful Jedi I mean PC cough cough, but if you're happy then I guess it's just fine.

Spent about 600 bucks for the following
Gigabyte Ultra durable(all solid capacitor) Motherboard
3x2 Gb DDR3
i5 661 2 cores 4 threads at 3.33GHz (I know it's a mistake)
1 T 7200rpm HDD
1 DVD-RW
A case

I'll be buying the GTX460 and a new mid-end 700W PSU in February. I intentionally want to use far higher rated PSU in the hope it will last longer and provide a far more stable power to the rig.



Congrats on the new rig but I don't have high hopes for Silent Hunter V honestly. I'm waiting for Shogun 2 Total War and Dragon Age 2. Been playing Dragon Age Origins again these past couple days too. It's a great game. My quest to get Mass Effect 2 for the holiday has failed..there's no more genuine copy available.

Gaming pcs aren't cheap over here. I was going to build one but cause I live in the country I have to order parts then wait for them to arrive & slowly build it up etc., Thought this time I'll just buy one already set up and ready to use.

a couple of cheaper pcs (new) that came with widescreen monitors/kb/mouse, nice system specs except for the integrated onboard video which put me of from buying - then there were the kick ass gaming rigs priced at around $3000+. :o So I stuck with the $679 one :)

[Castout]

3,000 bucks rig is wasting money imo unless money was really no issue.

[FIREWALL]

750 watt PSU ( Thermaltake Evo Blue) :salute:

:up: Will handle now and future.