I happened to venture on to this site and was reading a certain artical thanks to Sora's post earlier...
System Builder Marathon: Day 4 | Tom's Hardware
pretty much they take 3 systems of different ranges: a low cost performnace system, mid-range one, and a dream machine.
And of course the mid-range and dream machine proved well during test. But then they made an interesting match up. In which I was kind of confused of the outcome.
Budget Gamer's Special Component Costs
CPU Athlon X2 3800+ AM2 $82
CPU Cooler AMD Boxed Cooler 0
Motherboard MSI K9N4 Ultra-F $59
RAM Wintec AMPO PC2-6400 1GB $70
Graphics GeForce 8800 GTX $540
Hard Drive Samsung HD160JJ - P80SD $51
Sound Onboard Audio 0
Case Coolermaster Centurion 5 $50
Power AeroCool ZERODBA-S620 $125
DVD-RW Sony NEC Optiarc Black AD-7170S-0B 18X SATA
vs
Mid-Priced PC Component Costs
CPU Core 2 Duo E6600 $230
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper TX $30
Motherboard MSI P965 Platinum $135
RAM Patriot eXtreme Performance PDC22G6400LLK $160
Graphics EVGA GeForce 8800GTS PN: 320-P2-N811-AR $280
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS $160
Sound Onboard Audio 0
Case SILVERSTONE TEMJIN SST-TJ02SW $100
Power AeroCool ZERODBA-S620 $125
DVD-RW Sony NEC Optiarc Black AD-7170S-0B 18X SATA
the only key notable difference is the video card...
And with all the test it shows that in higher resolutions.. that the budget pc performs a whole lot better than the midrange one.
I know in the article it says its not really a build to recommend, but for the preference of gaming... wouldn't this build make suitable sense?
I don't know..I maybe wrong.. I'm not all that knowledgable and techincal as you guys and perhaps I'm just reading them wrong and just seeing numbers. But if thats the case, then just a few posts to clear things up would be much appreciative.
The only reason why i'm curious about this is because i'm still researching more on building a new rig of my own hehehehe.
Thanks!
System Builder Marathon: Day 4 | Tom's Hardware
pretty much they take 3 systems of different ranges: a low cost performnace system, mid-range one, and a dream machine.
And of course the mid-range and dream machine proved well during test. But then they made an interesting match up. In which I was kind of confused of the outcome.
Budget Gamer's Special Component Costs
CPU Athlon X2 3800+ AM2 $82
CPU Cooler AMD Boxed Cooler 0
Motherboard MSI K9N4 Ultra-F $59
RAM Wintec AMPO PC2-6400 1GB $70
Graphics GeForce 8800 GTX $540
Hard Drive Samsung HD160JJ - P80SD $51
Sound Onboard Audio 0
Case Coolermaster Centurion 5 $50
Power AeroCool ZERODBA-S620 $125
DVD-RW Sony NEC Optiarc Black AD-7170S-0B 18X SATA
vs
Mid-Priced PC Component Costs
CPU Core 2 Duo E6600 $230
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper TX $30
Motherboard MSI P965 Platinum $135
RAM Patriot eXtreme Performance PDC22G6400LLK $160
Graphics EVGA GeForce 8800GTS PN: 320-P2-N811-AR $280
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS $160
Sound Onboard Audio 0
Case SILVERSTONE TEMJIN SST-TJ02SW $100
Power AeroCool ZERODBA-S620 $125
DVD-RW Sony NEC Optiarc Black AD-7170S-0B 18X SATA
the only key notable difference is the video card...
And with all the test it shows that in higher resolutions.. that the budget pc performs a whole lot better than the midrange one.
I know in the article it says its not really a build to recommend, but for the preference of gaming... wouldn't this build make suitable sense?
I don't know..I maybe wrong.. I'm not all that knowledgable and techincal as you guys and perhaps I'm just reading them wrong and just seeing numbers. But if thats the case, then just a few posts to clear things up would be much appreciative.
The only reason why i'm curious about this is because i'm still researching more on building a new rig of my own hehehehe.
Thanks!