Comments on: Building a Gaming PC on a Budget – Spring 2009

By: Murray Andrews

Murray Andrews — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:17:56 +0000

Amazing! Exactly what I was looking for!

By: Building a Gaming PC on a Budget – Summer 2009 :: GameDrone

Building a Gaming PC on a Budget – Summer 2009 :: GameDrone — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:40:06 +0000

[...] is the same motherboard as in the spring budget system and for the same price. The reason for this is simple: we haven’t seen any great advances in [...]

By: Droniac

Droniac — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:27:35 +0000

Windows XP will run fine.

As for power requirements. I’m not sure 500 Watt will be enough, that depends on the videocard you’re going to use and the amount of internal (harddrives, disk drives) and external connectors (USB, Firewire) you generally have in use.

A 500 Watt PSU would do fine for say, a HD4850, 4GB RAM, 3 HDD system. But if you’re going to go more high-end than that (e.g.: GTX275), or attach a lot of external stuff, then you’ll want a more juicy PSU.

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:19:41 +0000

Oh i forgot to ask this: Windows XP Professional SP2 will run fine on this system right ? I do not want to move to Vista as I dont have the $ to spend on an OS.

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:17:15 +0000

I had Euro 100 as budget for processor and motherboard. (which is a lot more than USD 100) so I am perfectly fine with this combination. THe board seems quite good and I could upgrade it if I wanted to migrate to windows 7 later on with more RAM. Six Sata ports is just pleasing to see, will probably buy sata connector based optical drives.

Also another concern.. Since I do plan to upgrade the system later on with additional harddrives (possibly 2 more) and RAM (2×1 GB )and possibly a better graphics card, would opting for a 500W PSU (From Antec or Corsair) be enough ?

Thank you very much !

By: Droniac

Droniac — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:56:38 +0000

How about an AMD Athlon II X2 240 (2.8GHz) dual-core processor with a budget AMD board? Something like an ASUS M3A76-CM sAM2 motherboard?

That would be slightly over the $100 budget, but I wasn’t able to find a less powerful AMD dual-core processor.

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:47:48 +0000

Hello there!

I just went though the article and your choices are really good.

While it might seem offtopic, I am planning to buy a rather budget pc than a gaming PC.

Already have the Monitor, Case, Keyboard, Speakers, Sound card (PCI) and DVD drives from the older PC.

I was doing well this oold athlon XP (2600+ ) with AOpen MK77MII motherboard based pc is failing in general (frequent I/O errors) and i cannot get a replacement :(. so basically my IDE (Pata) 320 GB harddrive, Nvidia FX5200 256 MB GPU, and 2 Gigs of DDR Ram are useless as no board supports them now.

I require a new motherboard + CPU combo (within Euro 100 or less ) THe board should just be stable and not have reliability issues. I have no plans for overclocking the processor. a 2.2 Dual core from AMD would do just fine.

+ 2Gigs of Ram (no need for 4 as ill be using XP SP2 only and with a Linux Fedora/ Ubuntu)

+ a 500/320 gig harddrive

+ a 256MB PCI-e graphics card (don’t like onboard graphics)

+a decent powersupply IF possible.

Total budget for this cannot cross more than 250 Euros :( I dont have any gaming needs and its mostly used for programming, photoshop, and listening to songs and videos.

Reliability is the top priority. I dont have much need for processing really. I occasionally work in Photoshop which requires a decent amount of RAM. But I do heavy downloading for which the pc remains on for many hours in a day.

Ill be asking my cousin in germany to buy the stuff and get them over to India. I can’t find any good boards and stuff here is mostly outdated for my kind of budget :(