Recent content by chrisinmo2

You didn't say Obsidian I did. My point was the only way I would call a prodigy tiny would be in comparison to a full tower of that type. Great case but it's not tiny.

Have you looked closely at the dimensions of the Prodigy case? You said you wanted a small pc and used the word tiny and the prodigy is certainly not tiny nor would I call it small for an ITX case. I just did a build in a prodigy using an M Atx board and I love this case. I knew it was the...

If Micro Center is an option you can get the AMD 8320 cpu for 99 right now instead of the 150 listed above. Also the HDD in the above build is a 5400 instead of a 7200rpm and the price is not a good deal.

I notice that for the PSU you have Micro center as the source. If Micro center is an option for the OP he will be able to get an A10 Kaveri 7850K and motherboard combo cheaper than the APU / MB combo price in the best answer build above. The A10 7850 bundled with an Asus A88MX MB combo will...

Its an Asus VE247H. Its a TN panel not IPS because we were concerned with the possible lag time of an IPS panel since he primarily plays FPS games. The speakers are literally worthless as with everything on max you can barely hear them but we planned on adding the external speakers anyway. The...

I thought I would post some pics of my son's gaming PC that we built for Christmas. Thanks for the input and advice that made this possible and made for a very happy Christmas for my son. This would not have been possible without the research and advice from tom's hardware forums...

Not sure if this interests you but Microcenter has the FX 8320 for $99 right now. You could step up to an 8 Core processor and save $10.

My son and I will be building a system for him to start PC gaming (Skyrim, Minecraft, BF4, Far Cry 3 etc...). We have gathered several of the components required an will be completing the purchases over the holidays. I am planning on using a Core I5 3570K and ASrock Extreme 4 motherboard. We...

Thank you for the quick feedback. We picked up the power supply when we fond it for a good price with rebate but at that time we were looking at an FX 6300 and a 650 ti card. The specs keep changing and the power demands seem to keep increasing as we continue to research gaming builds.. I...

Approximate Purchase Date: year end (Christmas time) Budget Range: ~500 for the remaining pieces. after rebates (CPU, motherboard, monitor, Keyboard, and Mouse) System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, general web browsing, video streaming (youtube) Are you buying a monitor: Yes...