How To Tuesday: Piece together your own “low-cost” gaming PC

It’s another groovy How To from ExtremeTech. This time they’ve pieced together a “less expensive” gaming rig costing around $1540 once assembled (or $2075 including a new keyboard, mouse, speakers and monitor). OK, their last one was more than $4k, and they’ve gone as low as $800, but this one actually looks like it’s fairly affordable and will last a while longer.

Their cobbled system includes:

• CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ($313)
• Motherboard – ASUS P5NSLI ($108)
• Memory – Corsair TwinX 2048MB PC2-6400 ($280)
• Graphics Cards – 2 x PNY 7900 GS 256MB ($398)
• Sound Card – Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer ($89)
• Hard Drive – Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA ($95)
• Optical Drive – Lite-On SHM-165H6S DVD+/- DL ($43)
• Case – Antec Super Lanboy ($87)
• Power Supply – Antec Trio 650W ($126)
• Keyboard – Logitech G11 ($60)
• Mouse – Logitech G5 ($46)
• Speakers – Logitech Z4 or Sennheiser PC-165 ($80)
• Display – Viewsonic VX2235VM ($349)

Read [ExtremeTech]