Building the Ultimate Gaming System VI

It's been a while since I've run off and done a Building the Ultimate Gamer System, and for good reason- between helping others with tech troubles and generally destroying old PCs, I haven't had the time to sit down and play with parts in the concept of gaming. Hell, most of the time, it's boring stuff, like banking or “letting gramma get on that inter-neet thing”. But, now I have something to write about!

You see, about a few months ago, my last pretty little PC (My much loved Alienwate 5550 which I got for virtually free) began to chug and spit like a damn diesel engine. The flaw? Fans. You see, in ANY decent gaming system, the fans typically run much more than your average computer (for cooling all those hot parts)- to the point where fans that typically last far beyond the lifespan of your average PC (4-5 years) die faster (2-3) just out of wear and tear. It's natural and expected- it's not a trick or stupid, it's just how things run. People trade in cars sooner, why not PCs?

So, I began thinking. Why not replace the fans? Shit, why not replace the mobo too? That'd require replacing the CPU. And, hey, I don't need that big plastic case, why not a new one? Hell, that heatsink was always noisy, I'd replace that too. And maybe some mods on the sound card.

By the time I was done, I realized my Alienware could be trashed for cheaper. Well, sh*t. The Alienware had taken it's turn, and obviously it was going to the great server farm in the sky we call “the pit”, where most of Gametrash's misc crap is run (like how we manage to run game servers- we just take old PCs and make them do stupid stuff like that). So, why not build a new PC? And this time, I'd do it right- no purchase-and-mod, but I'd just save myself the middle man and build a PC. A small PC. A powerful PC. One that would make me the envy of the proverbial gaming Joneses. Yes, Gametrash readers. I was going to get an e-penis expansion.

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