Build your next gaming rig with this list

By Ben Zackheim

Sharky Extreme gives us this month's affordably gaming rig. The only real significant change is that you can now buy the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ for the same price as the Intel Pentium 4 3.0E.

AMD Athlon XP System

Case: Aspire X-Dreamer II (with 350W PSU) – $52

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Retail – $188

Cooling: included Retail HSF – $0

Motherboard: MSI K8T Neo-FSR – $79

Memory: 512-MB Corsair Value PC3200 DDR – $78

Hard Drive: 80GB Western Digital SE (8-MB) – $60

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT 128-MB- $166

Monitor: ViewSonic E90FB – $190

Sound Card: 6-Channel Integrated – $0

Speakers: Logitech Z640 6-Piece Speaker System – $45

CD/DVD-ROM: AOpen COM5232 Combo Drive – $35

Communications: Onboard LAN – $0

Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical – $15

Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard – $15

Operating System: Windows XP Home – $78

Total: $1,001

Click on the link to see the Intel setup.

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