Guide: Building a micro-ATX Core i7 gaming rig

Posted on Monday, September 07 2009 @ 6:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Firingsquad has a guide on building a micro-ATX LAN party PC with the Intel Core i7, you can check it out over here.

OK, OK, I admit—I was young and I may have been trying to compensate for something... Well, no matter how much fun I had having a slight upper hand over my buddies, they always got the last laugh when they were watching me painfully lug my gear up some basement stairs and trying to fit it into my car at 4:00 in the morning. It's a wonder I didn't give myself a hernia.

Thankfully for people like me, companies today offer LAN party goers and space-conscious people an array of good hardware that aims at packing features and performance into a small size. I recently set out to build such a LAN party machine to see if I could pack typical desktop performance into a portable package. Read on to see how I did..

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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