Looking to Buy/Build a New Rig?!?

**DrewFellenbaum** · 01-22-11, 05:47 AM

Who is good in this Category?

I am tired of gaming on my Craptop and want to either by a New gaming series laptop or have a Gaming Rig Built for me, for as cheap as possible. Need Ideas, Brainstorming and Prices. So Let me have them either here or in PMs.

I heard there's quite a few rig builders, and Price Hunters on TPG so let me know what you come up with if you fit into either of these categories.

Thanks

**dex71** · 01-22-11, 06:46 AM

I am willing to bet that you could build it yourself. It is much, much easier than you think. If I can do it, so can you.

Get the guys in here to help you find parts that will work well together, and assemble them. The instruction manual for the motherboard will have detailed step-by-step instructions, and it's like paint-by-numbers. Once you do it , you are that much better off.....you will see how easy it is, and you will be able to do your own upgrades and repairs. It's no tougher than hooking up a stereo system.

Otherwise.....there is another road you can take. Have ...bigdog... build you one.
http://www.teamplayergaming.com/pc-h...dog-boxes.html

Either way, you will get much more bang for your buck than some pre-built pos.

And the sig is disturbing......Only from the mind of Max. I think he puts a little of himself in each one.

**deputyfestus** · 01-22-11, 08:46 AM

From mild to wild and in between. System Builder Marathon, December 2010: Value, Compared : Raising The Stakes

**duncan_idaho** · 01-23-11, 10:20 AM

Hey Drew!
I just built a very decent machine for 450$ and I found quite a few good deals.

The best deal I found was a motherboard+PCU combo for 160 bucks only
Buy the Asus M4A785-M Motherboard and AMD Phenom X4 9450e at TigerDirect.ca
I did some testing yesterday, and I could easily handle 3 games running at the same time, on windows 7 64 bits, with only an average 60% load on each core.
The motherboard itself is awesome! ASUS always produce excellent stuff, and this is no exception. It's fast, it's very well layed out, and the chipset delivers. The cool and quiet technology is a good addtion, which regulates the fan speed so it doesn't blast out loud for nothing. The only let down is that you have a signle PCIe 16 slot, so no SLI/cross fire available.
Also, it supports 1066 MHz un-overclocked RAM, which is an akward number, there's not a lot of sticks available, unless you want to go back to 800 MHez RAM.
And theres only one chassis fan plug, so you better have some good heat sinks for the CPU.

Which leads me to
ULTRA X-WIND COPPER 120MM
Buy the Ultra U12-40602 X-Wind 120mm CPU Cooler at TigerDirect.ca
It's a pretty good fan, it keeps my CPU at 28 degree while idling, and at maximum 47 degree under heavy load. It's dirt cheap too.
But it's a pain to install on an AMD CPU. The thing is heavy, REALLY BIG (it blocks my channel A RAM slots, so I had to put them before the CPU), and the clips are too high-up, you have to force it down into the snaps. A decent choice but if you can find something better, go ahead

Other than that everything else I bought is standard. An Hitachi HDD at 7200 RPM. It kinds of bottleneck my system, I'd recommend a 10000 RPM HDD if you can afford this, or even a solid state memory for gaming.

That would be my 2 cents

**duncan_idaho** · 01-23-11, 10:26 AM

I forgot to mention:
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case

Buy the Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case at TigerDirect.ca

This case is PERFECT! By far the best choice I could make. For 50$ you get a clean, awesome looking case that will last you forever. Since it's mid sized you can put prettty much any motherboard into it (who uses full sized ATX mobo these days??) and it's build with the new bottom placed PSU design, which isolate it from the rest of the computer heat wise. You'll have plenty of place with the 4 front pannel expension slots, and the HDD rack that supports up to 6 drives..

Also, the 120mm chassis fan is full of bright blue LEDs , it just looks cool when it lights up

**HeavyG** · 01-23-11, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I forgot to mention:
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case

Buy the Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case at TigerDirect.ca

This case is PERFECT! By far the best choice I could make. For 50$ you get a clean, awesome looking case that will last you forever. Since it's mid sized you can put prettty much any motherboard into it (who uses full sized ATX mobo these days??) and it's build with the new bottom placed PSU design, which isolate it from the rest of the computer heat wise. You'll have plenty of place with the 4 front pannel expension slots, and the HDD rack that supports up to 6 drives..

Also, the 120mm chassis fan is full of bright blue LEDs , it just looks cool when it lights up

Far from perfect, in my opinion.