Ultimate Gaming Machine

[Neo]

From Maximum pc september issue.
This is one pretty rig. I'm starting to transform mine into something similiar.

Cooler Master ATC-201 case
case
PC Power and cooling Silencer 400
power
Braided IDE cables
cables
Asus p4t motherboard
asus
Intel 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4
intel
256 mb kingston pc800 rdram
rdram
Leadtek GeForce3 TD
leadtek
Hercules game theater XP
hercules
Two IBM 60 gb 60gxp's hard drives
IBM
Promise fastrak 100 tx2 controller card
promise
TDK veloCD 24/10/40 burner
TDK
Pioneer DVD-115
Pioneer
Klipsch 5.1 speakers
Klipsch
Sony GDM-F250 monitor
Sony

 

[fury]

Well, that may be all well and good for people who don't know any better than using email and chatting on AOL

But Maximum PC is so blatantly Intel biased it's not even funny.

Asus P4T: $159
Pentium 4 1.8: $548
Kingston PC800 256mb RDRAM: $101

Abit KG7: $127
AMD T-bird 1.4ghz/266 FSB (1.4 being the default speed, mind you, these can easily overclock to 1.6-1.7 provided good air cooling): $107
Corsair PC2400 CL2 256mb DDR SDRAM: $72

Which turns out to be the wiser choice? The Pentium 4 would no doubt mop the floor with the T-bird rig in gaming (it's kinda easy to do that when you have a gig or two of ram bandwidth), but everything else is taken easily by the T-bird.