My Low-Budget Gaming rig

[DamyLv]

Hi everyone :)

 

In this topic i'll show you my gaming rig.

As I said in the title, for this build I tried to make a gaming pc to play videogame in my short freetime, spending only a few money

overall because I currently am not financially well off :wacko:

 

I started from an Acer M3970 given to me by my parents in October 2011 for my birthday. From this Pc I preserved:

 

Cpu: Intel Core i5-2300

Motherboard: A Foxconn H67

Hd: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500Gb

 

Afterwards i bought from an user in an italian hardware forum an used Asus 6870 and a pair of Kingstom Value Series 4Gb DDr3 Ram. Finally from a friend i obtained a power supply 450w bronze certified and an Antec Kuhler 620 :D

 

Last but not least... I chose as case a Fractal Design Core 1000. It's so cheap but very well builded... and I love its sober and minimalistic looking 

 

Soon i will link here some pictures of the final build  :)

 

[BlackOutCrisis]

How much did you pay for the Asus 6870?

[kemical]

post some pics_

[DamyLv]

How much did you pay for the Asus 6870?

 

I paid 80€ shipping included.. so more or less 104 usd

[DamyLv]

I slightly modded the core 1000 taking inspiration from some pictures i found on the net

 

This is default case

 

I decided to cut the ugly front plastic grill

 

So, i removed the dust filter and I entered a black tight paper to get a more uniform looking front

 

And finally... that's the modded core 1000 front side now :)

 

I will explain you soon why I put the front fan as exaust ;)