$500 Gaming PC: Component Selection

[Guest]

Ahh... reminds me of building $200 and $250 gaming PCs in the K6-2 era. 450mhz processors, Geforce 2s and amazing, gigantic 512megs of memory?? Lookout Diablo 2!

This looks like a great little system and it's got my motor revving to homebrew a new computer now, curse you! =)

 

[tkchris]

So I'm thinking, looks safe... but I do want RAID-1 for redundancy. Therefore I bump from the DS3L to the DS3R. And enter the Audio Driver wars. No audio, no jack detection. After 3 days of no support from Gigabyte or Realtek, I'm RMAing the board and finding another solution. So much for the

 

[dave007]

any changes in the ideal setup since april? its july now.. my birthdays coming up!

 

[enzo matrix]

[citation][nom]dave007[/nom]any changes in the ideal setup since april? its july now.. my birthdays coming up![/citation]
You got the wrong year. This article was no 3 months old when you posted, it was 1 year and 3 months old.