So it has been roughly half a decade since I last had to consider buying a new PC or even bother keeping up-to-date on the current affairs and latest hardware for gaming PC's. However with Windows 7 coming out sometime this year and with my current gaming PC begining to get a little long in the tooth as the ARMA 2 demo showed. I've been looking into possible specifications for a new gaming PC.
Now I'm not looking to create a supercomputer here. Nothing Skynet-ish or Transformer-ish in nature, just a robust and reliable gaming PC that doesn't feel absurdly overpowered to run games and everyday use of varied applications and programs.
Below is what I came up with while looking through ComputerPlanet and customising my own build from some preset configurations they have. In total the below build comes to £747.50 inc VAT which seemed rather reasonable to me. But the big question is if the parts I picked below are considered 'OK' or 'good enough' for todays PC gaming market.
So what do you all think, good or bad? Opinions and feedback most welcome. And if anyone can explain to me what the different between RAID 1, RAID 0 and 'no' RAID configuration on the HDD means I'd be most grateful.
Also I think if you click the little 'i' icons you should be able to bring up the site's information on those components if anyone is interested in finding out some info about them.
Cheers!
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