so this is an exciting time I've actually had any number of people
request a new yes I got a copy of Vegas
I will no longer be using Windows Live Movie Maker cameraman finds that very
amusing evidently okay I am going to be doing a remake of the good enough gaming
system which uh This original video was released on the ncixcom channel in
standard de got about $100,000 views in
on August 23rd 2007 the dates to your
left there yeah okay so I have gotten a
ton of requests to redo this with more Modern
Hardware so I've actually decided not
only to do that but also to kick things up a notch and I'm going to be doing two
systems so I'm going to do one with my original good enough gaming goal which
was a $600 system so let's walk you through what I'm going to be using for
that this is all stuff that I've shopped for on the NC site in our weekly special
this week so no guarantees you'll find exactly this deal but there are no no
that's there for a reason what are you what what you doing that's there for a
reason okay um so uh now I've completely lost my
train of thought right so you usually find deals of this caliber although you
might not find exactly the same one so the first thing I've got here for my good enough gaming system is a core I3
2100 processor with a Gigabyte h61 motherboard I I went Super Value lowend
on the motherboard and for the processor I've gone with a dual core because the
reality of it is most of the games out there are still going to run just fine
on a dual core I went with 4 gigs of RAM because for $39.99 minus a $5 Mir how
can you say no the GTX 461 gig
especially with an additional 25 bucks off with a mail-in rebate and a free
copy of hawks 2 and a free NCIX $10 gift
card that comes with it is a smoking good deal so that works out to just
under 150 bucks for a great gaming graphics card the 300 at 5299 minus a 20
Mir is a well ventilated gaming chassis
it's pretty you know basic but it is what it is we're trying to hit a price
point here I do not have enough budget for an SSD so I've gone with a $40
Western Digital Caviar blue 500 gig I did not go with a green even though
they're cheap because green drives are not really suitable for OS drive use I
have a DVD Rider I've gone with Windows 7 Home Premium and a true power new 650
wat power supply normally this would not fit in my budget for a $600 machine but
it has a $30 Mir on it so down here at the bottom I can see that my cart total
is $693 192 I have $80 in MIRS and I have a
$10 ncx gift card that comes with that
uh that MSI graphics card so I basically treat that as cash so I went just over
my $600 Target and if you know someone if you already have a copy of Windows 7
then you can save yourself a 100 bucks there it becomes A5 $500 gaming machine
now for comparison I want to take this
value gaming machine and put it up against what you can build for about
1,000 bucks so here we've got an i5 2500k so we've gone from a dual core to
a quad core processor we've gone from a cheapo h61 board to a p67 board that is
SLI ready Crossfire ready and capable of overclocking we've gone from 4 gigs to 8
gigs of RAM we've gone all the way up to a GTX 570 OC
we've upgraded the chassis because most people you see spending 1,000 bucks on a
gaming system are going to be buying a decent chassis the 932 is definitely a
very decent chassis especially for after a $20 Mir around 100 bucks we've gone
with the same power supply because it's such a good deal for $39.99 the true
power 650 is just a ridiculous deal so uh it's fully capable of supporting that
GTX 570 so that's what I'll be doing I can afford an SSD on this machine so I'm
going with an ocz vertex 2 60 gig and then I'm going to go with a Caviar Green
for storage because you can cheap out on the drive because it's just for storage
green is fine for that finally I've got a DVD riter same as the other one in
Windows Home 7 Windows 7 Home Premium for 100 bucks and so my total minus $110
of Mir comes to about 1253 minus 110
minus another 10 bucks so uh just over
$1,100 so what I'm going to do is I'm going to build both of these machines
for you guys and I'm going to compare our good enough gaming machine to what
you would get if you spend just under twice as much don't forget to subscribe
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