The $500 Gaming Rig

For people contemplating on building a reasonable but able gaming (or home/office) machine, Tom's Hardware Guide gives us a great HowTo article for a $500 Gaming Machine. The article describes how one can come up with a nice system, with a realistic budget starting from scratch.

The specs are as follows:

* Platform: AMD Socket 939
* Motherboard: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
* Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core, 1.8 GHz, 512 kB L2 cache)
* Graphics Card: eVGA 256-A8-N340-TX GeForce 6600 (AGP, 256 MB of graphics memory)
* System Memory: Corsair Value Select 512MB kit (DDR400 [PC3200])
* Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB (SATA/150 interface, 8 MB cache and 7200 rpm)
* Optical Drive: LiteOn (SOHD-16P9SBLK) DVD-ROM
* Power Supply: Seasonic S12-330 330 W (SATA drive support)

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