Did you or are you going to build your computer?

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Tell your story about your first and current “gaming computer”

If you have never built a computer give it a try, it’s not that hard just get a friend or your local shop to help. Don’t be afraid to build your own computer.

My first custom built gaming computer was built by a friend of mine; I was chicken and he owned a computer shop. I had other computers but this was my first one built for gaming. I had him build me an Intel Pentium III 866 MHz, 1gig of memory, NVIDIA 4600 video card. It was built for IL2 and handled it with ease.

I built my current computer; with IL2 CoD looming on the horizon I wanted a power house. My wife and son are gamers and always get my old hand-me-downs but this time I got “the look” … you know … hands on hips, cold stare, tapping foot … you’ve seen it. So I had to build three or there was going to be trouble. My best gaming computer was an AMD FX60 with a NVIDIA 6800, it was a great computer. I wanted to stay with AMD do to my past experience and they have great performance v $$$.

Here’s my new build:

MOBO: ASUS Crosshair III Formula,
RAM: 8GB G Skill DDR3 1333,
CPU: AMD 965 Phenom II - 3.4GHz Quad-Core,
Cooling: ZALMAN 9500AT,
HD: WD Black Edition, 1TB games and 500 GB operating system and programs,
GPU: EVGA GTX 470, (will upgrade to dual-core 590 by the end of summer)
CD/DVD: LG with LightScribe,
Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro,
PSU: Corsair HX Series 850HX Modular,
Case: Cooler Master Centurion 590,
Windows 7 64-bit,



NOTE: This is not an AMD v Intel or NVIDIA v ATI thread.