One of the major magazines in the uk ran a feature on build your own games machine.
The spec they used
Motherboard Abit KV-7 £43
processor AMD OEM Athlon 3000XP+ 400mhz fsb 512 cach £91
Thermalite Volcano 11+ heatsink fan £13
RAM 1024Mb pc3200 (400mhz)DDR £90
3D Card ATI Radeon 9800pro £140
HDD Maxtor Diamond +9 80gb 133/7200 HD £40
Sony 16X dvd-rom £25
Arianet ATX 420W Case £22
8cm Case fan £3
delivery £12
Total a shade over £470 pounds.
They got a 3d mark score of 5700. which compares to a shop built system costing £1500
Any comments?
Richard will now depress us and point out that in the USA it would cost 50% less to buy all the bits.
