I got one in my e-mail when I had signed up before the Curse Gaming offer came up so if anyone would like the Beta key, I’d be happy to pass it along… just leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.
-Zero
I got one in my e-mail when I had signed up before the Curse Gaming offer came up so if anyone would like the Beta key, I’d be happy to pass it along… just leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.
-Zero
I am not going to lie… Suzaku, my laptop, nearly died a few weeks ago. I was in a panic. To think that I had just about my entire academic life in Suzaku and the damn thing almost killed all of my work with it’s possible death. I won’t lie… I was in pure fear. The Beast v7 had died a great while ago due to a bad power supply, so I really was SoL (not to be confused with my cousin Sol) without a spare WORKING machine.
It was one of those moments that I had to almost pause time and evaluate everything… The thoughts started rolling in my mind:
“What the Hell am I going to do?! I can’t afford a laptop…”
“Will Suzaku hold out until I can hole up at minimal $1,000 for a great laptop?”
“What will happen if my laptop dies?! I am not going to have a machine for college next semester!“
But then… A thought had hit me like a bolt of lightning from a brain storm…
“I have some birthday cash… Maybe I can make a budget build machine as a back up and slowly make it stronger.“
So I settled and decided to do the unthinkable… I drove out to CompUSA out in Plano and said “Let’s see what $200ish can get me nowadays…” What I found shocked me, as if Heaven smiled on me… The game plan was to take the shell of the Shuttle xPC SK41G and just throw in new parts.
So… Here were the parts I had gathered from my run (4/25/2009):
$50 – Biostar MCP6P M2+ microATX Mainboard (nVidia nForce 430)
$90 – AMD x64 Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.2Ghz processor
$30 – Ultra 450w power source
$40 -OCZ High Performance Dual Channel Kit: 866mhz 2GB DDR2 RAM
Total cost: $210 + tax (8.25% in Plano)
To most hardcore gamers… I know this was not “uber” but my point was to make a machine comfortable to use. The reused parts were to be the 40GB hard drive and DVD-ROM from The Beast.
$40 – Thermaltake Wings RS 100 Piano Black case
Total build cost – $250 + tax
$15 – Second hand 15″ standard definition LCD monitor$50 – 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7,200 RPM hard drive
My apologies for lacking updates for a very long time… I have been busy with school and with exam season coming along… I am going to lose much more time. Please bear with me and I will return with a bang…
Love,