Fully-functioning Gaming PC
It must be some sort of miracle. I got all the parts for my new gamingﾃつPC yesterday, cracked them all open in a pile on my bed, and about twoﾃつhours later had my new, fully-functioning PC with a fresh copy of
Windows Vista Home Premium chugging away at an install with nary aﾃつproblem along the way.
Okay, there were a couple of problems. But nothing like theﾃつblood-letting and weeping that has usually been involved when I’veﾃつbuilt my own PCs.
Here’s what I ended up getting, by the way, all for less than $1,000,ﾃつshipped: An Antec Sonata III case with a 500-watt power supply; aﾃつGigabyte motherboard with an Intel Core2Duo at GHz; a Radeon HD4870
video card; 4GB of DDR2 memory; a 640GB, 7200RPM hard drive; theﾃつcheapest DVD burner I could find; Vista; and a ridiculously largeﾃつScythe heat sink that made installing all the parts a bit of a pain inﾃつthe ass.
In fact, the way the heatsink clipped onto the Socket 775 boards wasﾃつsort of weird. It uses these little plastic pins that push down intoﾃつthe motherboard. I’m not entirely sure how I got them on there ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶
and even less sure how I’m supposed to take them out. But the heatﾃつsink is working well for the moment, so good enough.
I’ll probably spend the next couple of days tweak the performance likeﾃつRAM timings and the like, but I doubt I’ll mess too much with success.ﾃつIt’s already insanely fast when it comes to 3D performance from my
cursory trips through a few familiar games. I doubt another percentageﾃつpoint here and there is going to be too noticeable and I’d greatlyﾃつprefer a stable system to one teetering at the brink of performance.
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