Building a $1K Gaming Rig

Timmus writes "Firingsquad has posted an article on building a cutting-edge PC for gaming. The author manages to build an Athlon 64 3500+ rig with GeForce 7800 GT graphics and 1GB of RAM for $1,000. In the end they run benchmarks of the budget PC against a high-end FX-57 system to see how they compare. Surprisingly, the budget PC performs pretty close to the flagship system!" From the article: "Quite often we get emails asking which component(s) are 'the best' or, 'I have [x] amount of money to spend for my next upgrade, what do you think I should get?' It's impossible for us to answer these types of questions for you, simply because only you know what your needs are. Only you know how you use your computer, every person out there is different, even among gamers."

Comments

Budget?

[Oz0ne]

Since when is a $1k PC a "Budget System?"

I bought a mac for $1200, I could have had similar raw performance for like $300.

Re:$1000 is a BUDGET system?

[KillShill]

10 thousand bucks is a hell of a lot of money for a car when you can get a 30 year old yugo for 200 bucks.

i have yet to find cargo that the yugo won't transport from point a to b acceptably.