I recently had to lug my desktop to a LAN party, and while I had lots of fun blasting zombies away with a couple of friends, it was honestly quite a hassle to move my relatively big box aroundâ€"and I wasn’t even bringing around a display.So props to Tom’s Hardware for their May System Builder’s I recently had to lug my desktop to a LAN party, and while I had lots of fun blasting zombies away with a couple of friends, it was honestly quite a hassle to move my relatively big box aroundâ€"and I wasn’t even bringing around a display.
$600 Gaming PC, Courtesy Tom's Hardware
So props to Tom’s Hardware for their May System Builder’s Marathon. The highlight: a $600 microATX gaming PC that can fit in a gym bag, along with other peripherals like the mouse and keyboard. The specs:
ComponentModelPrice (U.S Dollar)CPUIntel Pentium E5200 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor$70CPU CoolerIntel Boxed Heatsink/Fan$0MotherboardASRock G41M-LE Micro ATX Intel Motherboard$62RamG.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory$41GraphicsXFX GeForce GTX 260 GX260XADJF Video Card$170Hard DrivesSeagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 3.5″ SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive$60SoundIntegrated$0NetworkIntegrated$0CaseSILVERSTONE Sugo SG01-BF Black Computer Case$70PowerOCZ Fatal1ty OCZ550FTY 550W Power Supply$75OpticalLITE-ON 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model iHAP222-06$25Total Price$593Surprisingly, if Tom’s is correct, the performance of this rig is comparable to my $1200 homebuilt FragBox.
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