my gaming rig!

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by 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.

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+. So I stuck with the $679 one

[Castout]

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