how to build a gaming computer under 400$

Now days computing systems can cost a fortune if they are bought assembled, and if you wish to buy a system that can support modern games, that a whole new number game. Any decent gaming computer would set you back by at least 750$ if bought assembled but by looking around in the Internet you could "build your own" computer for way cheaper ........

All you need to do is search the net and you will be surprised to see how much money you can save not only that but assembling your own computer teaches you a lot about the computer in case you ever need to upgrade your computer in the future

Here's an example of a computer that i built, it has the potential to run any game that has come out till date or at least all the games that I've encountered and believe me that's a lot of games .......

For the case i chose this one because it was made from steel and had a convenient handle on it......

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154094

i needed around 4GB of ram to support games so i went with...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231396

I chose a micro ATX, ADM3+ compatible mother board, in case i need to upgrade in the future....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130630

i went with an AMD processor as they are cheap and have a high performance level in this price range...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103886

the power supply will wary depending on the specs you desire, for my case i used the 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817154026

for fast and efficient game data reading/writing i found this to be suitable....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

installing a load of games takes a load of space, for me 500 GB should be enough but the rate of transfer also changes the quality of the game play, i went with 6GB/s...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

now comes the big one, its probably the most expensive part of your "build", the graphics card.

depending on your budget and the kind of performance you want it varies the cost massively. I went all out with mine so it set me back quite a bit......

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161379

but for a modest computer that will still run almost all games try this,it saves you 60$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161376

All this costed me (with the high end GPU) 400$ with delivery charges but i already had the keyboard mouse and the monitor from my previous computer so if you include that, it would come to a grand total of 450$ but if you decide to go for the mid ranged GPU then you should manage (including the cost of the keyboard, mouse and monitor) just under 400$ and 350$ excluding it. So there you go you just saved 300$-400$ dollars just by assembling your own computer. You could try cutting down further to get the price even lower.....so now you can enjoy those games without burning a whole in your pocket....enjoy.

How to figure out if that game will work on your computer

Most people who download games for the first time don't even know what their computers/laptops are capable of, some of them are over achievers and some of them are under achievers this problem mostly occurs in the case of the latter; they download games which couldn't possibly be supported by the computers that they are using. On doing so, they just get irritated and give up on it so before downloading or worse buying that game which is just a few click away, bother clicking a few more times and save yourself that ever so precious bandwidth if your computer is not up to the mark......and even if it isn't, just try this or just go out and buy yourself new parts

its actually very simple, all you need to do is go to this site and enter the name of the game you wish to play and allow the site to install the plugin, the plugin itself is completely safe and uninstalls itself after its task is completed this site is highly trusted and is even trusted by Intel and is used to scan your computer for the latest drivers.

after the plugin has finished scanning your computer, it will display its results in two parts, is tells you the minimum requirements for the game and whether it will run on your computer  and the optimum settings for that particular game and whether you can play it at those settings. The site also tells you details about your computer which you should know at the drop of a hat that is if you wish to continue with gaming regardless of the fact that you download or buy the games you will play. If your are downloading the game for the first time then read this for help, it will take you through the steps of installing bit-bit. If you like my blog then please comment and follow as i answer the question i.e. "how to?" also feel free to ask a question by leaving a comment. enjoy your gaming experience.

How to run high spec games using low spec systems

Well most people want to play high end games and why shouldn't they, after all games are meant to be played but a major barrier comes in the way........your gaming system.

most people don't own a gaming console so they try to play games on basic computers or laptops and are disappointed to find out that their system cannot support the game after they have installed it (click if you need help installing) to prevent this scenario from occurring try this, but this is a very common scenario especially when it comes to laptops as there is nothing much you can change without voiding the warranty except for the RAM and there lies your key to high end gaming......

All you need is an increase in RAM around 4GB would be suitable but 2GB would also do this really shouldn't be much trouble as RAM chips are far cheaper than graphics cards and the will also help in improving the performance of your computer on the whole. Now you will need to install a Graphics Card Emulator i.e a virtual graphics card (click on the link to download). What this basically does is that it uses a part of your RAM memory for example sake say 128MB from a 2GB card (depending on the graphics card you wish to emulate) and combines it with the on board default graphics card therefore giving you the power to play games that you couldn't play before. So now even your laptop can play those games that you only read about in reviews.......it allows you to emulate the  NVIDIA GeForce TI 4600,NVIDIA GeForce FX 4900 ULTRA,ATi Radeon  8500,ATi Radeon 9800 PRO and so on. so install it today and enjoy thos games that were out of your reach and its free if you have enough RAM

NOTE- after using the emulator, do not use the desktop icon to play the game instead use the gamename.exe in the main installed directory. Have fun with those games now. feel free to ask a question by leaving a comment and please follow my posts as ill be writing about 

How to install a game after downloading it

well most people after downloading a certain game cant figure out how to install it especially if its their first time and just stop downloading all together but i really isn't that hard...

before i start this i assume that you have already safely downloaded the .iso image of the game using either utorrent or bittorrent that you wish to install. If not please do so the above link will help you download virus free games

well the first problem most people face is that they don't actually know how to open the .iso image i.e mounting the image using deamon tools. In order to do so follow the link in the previous sentence and download and install deamon tools onto your computer, its free version should suffice for playing games. After installing demon tools right click on the .iso image and select mount on one of the virtual drives that's provided by deamon tools.

Now that the .iso image has been mounted go to my computer and install the game using the virtual drive as if it were a cd (the whole point behind deamon tools) by clicking on the gamename.exe file. The installation should begin on its own,if the game has two or more cd's then mount both the cd's on seperate virtual drives for convenience sake.

Now that the game has been installed go back to the virtual drive and open the no cd crack folder generally named crack or by the name of the person who released the game(s) copy the three or more files present and paste them at the location where you have installed the game on your computer on doing so you will be prompted and choose copy and replace on doing so the original .exe will be replaced with the no cd crack one.

But sometime the release does not contain the no cd crack and has to be manually downloaded from the Internet this can be done from either game copy world or megagames after following these steps click on the desktop icon that should have been created during installation and play the game. Enjoy your gaming experience........ if you have any other questions regarding this then feel free to leave a comment. please follow and read through my other posts they will be regarding gaming this month.

well i figured out that the one question we all need answered is "how to?" after all its gaining knowledge we seek right? well that's what i think all of us seek, elementaly speaking.....

well yes since my very childhood i'v been a curious one, always driving people up walls with my questions, till a point where the internet was the only one that could answer my questions. but the internet had this massive flaw, for every issue i searched on i would find multiple contradictory answers or complicated answers that would simply drive me crazy. After facing years of this fix, i finally decided to try and compose all th answers that i have ever gotten for any of my questions and put them up for people who might have the same questions as me and no one to answer them for them. So feel free to ask questions of any sort whatsoever by leaving a comment and i hope i can help you with it