How to Build an Expensive Gaming PC
Building a new computer can be a rewarding experience that will save you a lot of money in the short term (on parts and assembly) and in the long term (by teaching you the skills you will need to troubleshoot your own PC). Where cost is not an issue, you can build an expensive gaming PC that will run all of the current games, as of 2010, at their highest or near-highest settings. This will generally take a few hours to assemble, but it will provide you with an expensive gaming PC due to the high quality, speed, performance and price of the components involved.
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Things You'll Need
- Quad-core Intel i7 processor
- Eight gigs of DDR3 RAM
- Motherboard
- Case
- Optical drive
- Dual Raptor 150GB hard drives
- GeForce GTX285 video card
- 800- to 1,000-watt power supply
Instructions
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Screw the motherboard into the case, aligning it with the holes pre-drilled into the case wall.
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Mount the i7 processor into the processor slot, locking it into position with the retaining lever. Attach the heat-sink according to the directions that came with your model of i7 processor.
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Insert the 8GBof RAM into the RAM slots next to the processor.
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Screw the optical and hard drives into the bays at the front of the PC case. Connect SATA cables to data ports on the back of the drives.
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Screw the GeForce GTX285 into the PCI-E slot near the middle of the motherboard.
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Screw the power supply into the case and connect the leads from the power supply to the ports on the motherboard, graphics card, hard drives and optical drive.
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