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Science & Technology
Jack of Clubz HTPC Build |
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Views: 777 - Rating: 4.00
Comments: To all those people who think you need to pay out of the rectum for a good gaming or HTPC build look at the hardware and the type of games I am showing. Do not believe the hype. Just finished putting this bad boy together. The guts of my beast are of the following:
Sil LC17-S Case $130
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MSI K9A2-Platinum (V1)$130
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AMD X2 5000+ Black Edition OC'd at 3.2 GHZ $99
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Therm Butterfly CPU Cooler $49
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4GB OCZ DDR 800 RAM $100
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MSI ATI 3870 512MB 256-bit Graphics Card $160
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Logy 650 Watt PSU $49
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Creat X-Fi PCI-E Soundcard $$$FREEBIE$$$
- Vista Ultimate 64-bit $99
Games shown:
Gears of War 1680x1050 all highest settings
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Unreal Tournament 3 1680x1050 all highest settings
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2 Episode 2 all highest settings
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1440X900 all high settings
The first 3 games played anywhere from 45-70 FPS. Crysis was about 30 FPS. I will update this movie once I have added a Phenom processor and another video card for crossfire.