The Official OC3D Recommended Gaming Rigs Thread - Rigs

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In the market for a new system? Unsure of whats hot and whats not? Here is the community and admin team's opinion on the current best rigs to purchase, depending on your price bracket.

Please remember that these rigs are gaming PC's and as such we are not catering for incredibly low-budget/quality builds (visit www.dell.com for that)

OC3D Rigs:

Uber Budget

CPU:AMD 64 3200+ (AM2)

Mobo: DFI Infinity nF UltraII-M2/G

RAM: Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Ballistix Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT6464AA663)

Graphics: nVidia 7600GS

PSU: Coolermaster iGreen Power 430w

HDD: Hitachi 80GB SATA 300 or Seagate 7200.10 80GB SATA 300

Budget

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6300

Mobo: abit AB9 Pro

RAM: OCZ 1GB (2 x 512MB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Special Ops XTC Series DDR2

Graphics: ATI X1950 Pro

PSU: Silverstone Zeus 560w ST56ZF

HDD: Hitachi 7K160 160GB SATA 300 HDD or Seagate 7200.10 160gb SATA 300 HDD

Mid Range Rig:

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6600

Mobo: abit AB9 Pro

RAM: OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2

Graphics: ATI X1950 Pro Crossfire

PSU: Zippy Emacs GSM-6600P G1 600w PSU

HDD: 2 x Hitachi 7K160 160GB SATA 300 HDD or 2 x Seagate 7200.10 160gb SATA 300 HDD in RAID 0

High End Rig:

CPU: Intel Core2Duo X6800E

Mobo: AW9D Max

RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

Graphics: 8800GTS

PSU: OCZ Gamestream 850w

HDD: 2 x Seagate 7200.10 750gb in RAID 0

Uber High End

CPU: Intel Core2Quad Extreme QX6700 quadcore CPU.

Mobo: abit IN9 (to be released at this time)

RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8888C4 TwinX (2x1GB)

Graphics: 2 x 8800GTX in SLI

PSU: PCP&C 1kw

HDD: 2 x WD Raptor 150GB in RAID 0 + 1 x Seagate 7200.10 750gb