March 27, 2005
High End Gaming System Buyer's Guide
Sharkyextreme as the latest monthly feature where they pick the best components for a gaming system budget of $2500. It is always a good read. I don't know if I'll ever spend $400 on a video card, but one can dream.Last month marked a quantum leap forward for our Intel and AMD systems, and both displayed significant performance and features improvements. This month we already had the benefit of nForce4 SLI and i925X platforms, high-end GeForce 6800 GT 256-MB PCIe video cards and 8ms LCD displays, so the improvements were more sublime. Still, the Athlon 64 3800+ addition will certainly please AMD buyers, while the Maxtor 250GB hard drive (with NCQ and a 16-MB data cache) is certainly a worthwhile upgrade.
