Building A High Performance Gaming PC For Near $500

[dustin_ds3000]

check this out http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST3200827AS-R&cat=HDD

 

[akaivan]

check this out http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST3200827AS-R&cat=HDD

not bad, only 8 mb cache tho. great price for 200 gigs

 

[dustin_ds3000]

yeah im goin to buy two of them and use RAID 0

 

[akaivan]

is it easy to set up a sata HD? cause itll be my first one i ever purchased. how do i do it>? lol

 

[dustin_ds3000]

i haven't done it yet ether, it cant be that hard. just install the RAID drivers when you install windows

 

[akaivan]

i haven't done it yet ether, it cant be that hard. just install the RAID drivers when you install windows

lol k like right after i uninstall windows? or during ?


BTW EVERYONE ALL PARTS ARE ORDERED!

 

[Myzz617]

Honestly i dont know much about this raid stuff...Sata drives are easy, well at least at my job they are. The only problem i have is connecting the PSU sata cable into the HDD. Other than that I think its easy.

 

[dustin_ds3000]

lol k like right after i uninstall windows? or during ?


BTW EVERYONE ALL PARTS ARE ORDERED!

when you boot up from a win XP cd it will ask you if you want to install any RAID drivers

 

[JimShady23]

Hmm

For the last year, year and a half maybe longer, all the single (non-raid) sata drives that I have set up on machines have been detected via XP with no driver install needed. Not saying all, but most motherboards now do not need the sata driver to detect a sata drive. Raid is another thing

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Dont get that build, the parts are cheap and it's not very "High Performance" if you plan on gaming, just get this build someone on this forum showed me a few weeks ago:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane - $65.00
Biostar tForce 550 ATX AM2 Motherboard - $78.99
Corsair ValueSelect 1GB (512MB x2) DDR2-667 RAM - $64.99
Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA-2 HDD - $56.99
eVGA e-GeForce 7600 GT 256MB -$109.99

Other:
ASUS 80mm CPU Cooler - $8.99
Apevia Turbo-Link 500W Power Supply - $39.99

Total Price (With shipping) - $438.22

Alot cheaper and better

You'll have to pick out a CD drive for yourself since that's more of a personal choice on what you want to do, Gaming and uploading stuff to CDs require faster speeds

That was me that recommended that. And I can say that CPU, Memory and Motherboard are very good for the price. Those parts should do wonders.

 

[akaivan]

hahah thanks guys.. my pc should be coming in soon. cant wait to build!