Building a hot rod
Posted by Robert Dow on September 24th 2011 | Discuss
Categories:
Hardware Review
Tags:
gaming
pc
There are three (probably more) approaches to building a gaming PC:
- Build the lowest cost unit you can that will run FPS Dx11 games at >30 fps.
- Build a machine that is pretty good and less than $5,000.
- Build the biggest baddest money is no object machine.
We chose to go for the middle and built the following system.
JPR’s Corsair hot rod of the month
This can be considered a state of the art machine with a dual GPU AIB that runs S3D and a nice size 23.6-inch monitor. A fast SSD drive and 8 GB of DDR3 give it plenty of data delivery and the AIB gets the pixels to the screen ASAP. This is a machine you can be comfortable in front of for extended periods of time, won’t be obsoleted soon, and one you’ll never have to apologize for.
| Component | Price |
|---|---|
| Case - Corsair CC600TWM | $170 |
| Power Supply - EVGA 1200W | $335 |
| DVD & 160 GB Intel SDD drive | $350 |
| Mainboard - Intel DX58s02 | $250 |
| CPU - Intel i7 970 3.2 GHz | $550 |
| RAM 8GB - Corsair | $40 |
| Keyboard - Logitec G110 | $60 |
| Mouse -Razer | $50 |
| Display- Acer GD235HZ | $320 |
| AIB - Nvidia GF590 | $480 |
| 3D - Nvidia 3D vision | $70 |
| Total | $2,675 |
