Fraps testing. The computer can handle it!

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I have a pretty crappy computer, but things are looking good after this first recording. Second recording with traffic at 100 coming soon! I bet navigating through that kind of traffic will take ages...

There are 10 police cars, 3 ambulances, and 2 fire trucks that responded to this incident (including myself)

Edited August 29, 2011 by Kestrel

[Paramorefan31 0]

what are your specs?

[Kestrel 0]

CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 Rana 3.2GHz AM3

MoBo: ASUS M4A88T-M LE AM3 AMD 880G Micro ATX

GPU: Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI-E 2.1

RAM: G.Skill NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-pin DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA

PSU: Antec EarthWatts Green 430W 80 PLUS Bronze

I sold my "super duper" gaming rig when work was taking up so much of my life, that I didn't have time for games anymore. When things settled down, I threw together this rig on the very tiny budget I had back in April. Dug around really hard and managed to get the CPU, motherboard, video card, memory, and the case all for just $200 plus shipping. The hard drive, optical drive, and power supply I already had, just sitting on the shelf unopened in factory packaging.The case came with a 450W power supply, but I'm not a big fan of bundled cases and PSUs, so I swapped it out immediately for something I trust.

I do say though, for the tiny budget (relative to some of you people with out-of-this-world gaming rigs ) it handles games surprisingly well. I of course did my research on each of the parts I was buying, and was honestly quite skeptical of some of the figures I was looking at, but sure enough it performs quite well!

[Iconography 1,384]

Man; the CPU, Mobo, case, video card and memory all for $200? That's a steal. Wish mine was that cheap

Just on a side note, may I recommend that you upgrade your PSU when you get the chance? 430W will become a bottleneck if you ever upgrade anything else. Most video cards now recommend 500W+

But you probably know that.

Edited August 29, 2011 by Iconography

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Man; the CPU, Mobo, case, video card and memory all for $200? That's a steal. Wish mine was that cheap

Newegg + sales + coupons + right timing = win!

Just on a side note, may I recommend that you upgrade your PSU when you get the chance? 430W will become a bottleneck if you ever upgrade anything else. Most video cards now recommend 500W+

But you probably know that.

Yea, I figure I'm cutting it really close as it is. Just happened to be on hand and figured it would be just enough to power everything. Things have been smooth so far!

[Iconography 1,384]

Newegg + sales + coupons + right timing = win!

Allow me to revise.

Newegg = WIN.