Posts Tagged ‘gaming rig’

Here is last week’s “Weekly Build” – sorry for the delay!

Recently, the enthusiast oriented builds we have put together have been relatively expensive, usually around the $1,000 mark. After seeing my article on the $500 PC for grandma, Jared became curious as to how cheaply you could build a machine but still be able to use it for gaming. I set out to see what kind of gaming performance you could squeeze out of $600. As it turns out, quite a bit.

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Mike:

Welcome to a new weekly segment we are calling “Weekly Build”. Each week, one of our writers will piece together a computer based on current online specials that meets one of several criteria.

These criteria may vary from week to week, but typically the machines will be either restricted to a certain price point, or a specific purpose. This week’s system is limited by both: a $1,000 price cap, and that it be a purpose-built gaming PC.

Geek-Republic’s newest member Jared takes us through this week’s build.

There aren’t too many great sales this week, but I think I was able to put a good machine for a decent price.

Before deciding on a budget I looked through this week’s sales. While there was nothing unprecedented, there were some good deals on some of the higher end components. I decided on a $1,000 budget, and I would say this build falls somewhere between a gaming rig and a performance machine.

Note: all prices include shipping.

$119.99 - OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 2.5″ 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) [Newegg]

While 60gb is probably not enough space to store all of your data, it should easily be enough for an OS/application drive. I chose this particular drive because it is on sale at the moment, but alternatively 2 smaller drives could be used in a RAID 0 configuration for an equivalent capacity and increased speed.

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