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A PC Enthusiast Dream: $7000 Gaming PC

Web-Site Assembles Killer Gaming Rig for LAN Parties

by Anton Shilov

[ 03/22/2006 | 09:28 PM ]

Have you ever dreamed about the fastest gaming system to date? It is very likely that you have. But the technology moves forward at such a rapid pace that it very unlikely that someone can remember all the latest products from all the developers and builders. In order to refresh memory of potential highest-end systems buyers, ExtremeTech has released its Killer Gaming Rig: Spring 2006 guide.

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This time the authors used AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 central processing unit, Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe mainboard, 2GB Corsair PC-3500LL memory, ATI Radeon X1900 XT in CrossFire mode as well as Dell UltraSharp 3007 WFP as the base for their system that cost $7041 in total.

If you are going to assemble a high-performance gaming system, you may be interested in having a look at the appropriate article at ExtremeTech, as the author very briefly describes peculiarities of every piece of hardware used. In addition, the web-site publishes benchmarks of the system that was built with no limits in mind.