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How to Build a Kick-ass $800 Gaming PC

Benson Hong and Florence Ion from MaximumPC.com: "In October, we spec'ed out a respectable $800 gaming PC in our monthly Buyer's Guide feature. While the price and parts looked promising, we had to see for ourselves if this sub-$1000 system could hold its ground against today's top rigs. After all, if you don't need to spend your next month's paycheck on performance parts, why should you?

"We had to make some careful choices to keep this machine within our constrained budget, but in the end we were surprised by this little PC's kick ass performance. Want to learn how to build it yourself? We'll walk you through our meticulous build process, explain why we chose each component, and give you our final thoughts on the benchmark results this little-PC-that-could throws down."

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PS-3PO the Droid5593d ago

I can get 4gig at newegg for the exact same price.

Nathan Drake5593d ago

Love your name,has an "Alternate account" ring to it

ElementX5593d ago (Edited 5593d ago )

Your name as a "douchebag" ring to it.

Sony fanboy. I seriously doubt you even own a 360, but you seem to always comment in the 360 articles. Actually, you seem to voice your opinion in every article regardless of console. Seems that you only have 9 bubbles because of other Sony fanboys.

Fishy Fingers5593d ago

Take the $800 bucks and buy a ticket to imagination land?

It's not a bad rig, but far from "kick ass". Your basically getting a machine that will give you good results from UE3, a notoriously easy engine to run. You'd stuggle with the majority of current games like COD4/5 and be seriously disappointed by games on the horizen.

The article also suggests benchmarks for a "typical 22-inch LCD" so unless you manage to find one in the street, with a half decent k/b and mouse to go alone with it you can stick at least another $300 onto of that.

Elimin85593d ago

$800.00 Just for Gaming and they b!tch about the Ps3 Price..... For that price I can get a 80 GIG PS3, Xb360 Arcade and a couple of games... Just saying.

Fishy Fingers5593d ago (Edited 5593d ago )

Yes but obviously a PC has far more practical applications than just gaming. Case in point, you here on N4G.

FordGTGuy5593d ago

Maybe in a lower resolution with no filters. Trying turning all the filters on with high quality textures and a higher resolution. Want a challenge try running Crysis with high quality textures, all filters and in 1680x1050 smoothly on a single graphics card.

moses5593d ago

That 4850 will take on COD4 and 5 easily, hell I can run COD5 maxed out with max AA + AF on 1920x1200 with over 60 fps on my GTX 280 most games are easy as hell to run, the only ball breakers are the PC exclusive DX 10 games.

Ryudo5593d ago (Edited 5593d ago )

Sorry but your wrong I run COD4 at 1680x1050 on my secondary machine.

Specs:
Asus mobo A8N-SLI
2gig of crucial value select ram
AMD 4000+ Single core
Graphics Nvidia 7800GT

Am even using 4x AA with that old rig and everything on high. my Dell XPS E6700 core 2 and my 8800GTOC runs that game at 1920x1200 with full everything like its a joke.

evrfighter5592d ago (Edited 5592d ago )

struggle with cod4/5 with an e8400 and a 4850....lolololol...that is all

I lied. I'm using an x2 5400 (yes thats amd, which an e8400 spanks to next tuesday) and an hd3870. yes my rig is about 250 dollars cheaper than this one. I play cod4/5 All high 4xAA at 80-100fps constant.

I can definately max it out with 8xAA but id be going into the 50-60fps range. most casual gamers won't notice a different between those two ranges but it's night and day for me. Even Though lcd monitors will only show 75 frames max I keep it there so I'm assured I'll never dip below 75fps.

edit. Whats with that crappy Power Supply. 15 dollars cheaper would get them an OCZ stealthstream 600watt and 30 dollars cheaper would get them the 500watt stealthstream at the egg.

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FordGTGuy5593d ago

for a hundred or so more dollars you could get 1TB HDD, Radeon HD4870 1GB or GTX 260 216 core and 4 GB of ram through newegg.

caladbolg7775593d ago (Edited 5593d ago )

... go to http://www.newegg.com, toss in a collection of choice hardware pieces, check out, and get ready to enjoy a number of 360 "exclusives" the way they were MEANT to be played.

fossilfern5593d ago

Could of got that AMD 7750 Black Edition its like £60 and ALMOST as fast as an E8400 and it overclocks well

FordGTGuy5593d ago

they got a E8400 over 5.0 Ghz although that is extreme cooling.

moses5593d ago

The same CLOCKSPEED, not performance, not sure if you know, but Core2Duo architecture>>>AMDx2 plus you can OC the 45nm E8400 EASILY to 3.6~4 on air.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai7h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken7h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye5h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken4h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno2h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop1h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger2h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer1h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz14940m ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos6m ago(Edited 5m ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Ra30301h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris11m ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

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