Rate this gaming Rig

[Guest]

On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest) how good of a GAMING computer is this?

Case - Raidmax Sagitta 2
Motherboard - ASRock A780GXE/128M
Hard drive - WD 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache w/ additional secondary WD 500GB 7200rpm
CPU - Phenom II X4 940 3.0Ghz AM2+ w/ Thermaltake SpinQ heatsink
GPU - Crossfire 2 XFX HD4850 512MB
RAM - 8.00GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800
PSU - 750W Antec ATX12V
DVD - 1 Samsung DVD/RW X24 and 1 Sony DVD/RW
Cooling - 3 x 120MM Fans

 

[Proximon]

Case - Raidmax Sagitta 2
A butt ugly cheap case with inferior cooling. There are many worse cases. 6

ASRock A780GXE/128M
An incredibly cheap crossfire board that I've never seen CF performance tests on. 780G is not even supposed to support CF but somehow ASRock has jury-rigged something. 7

WD 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache w/ additional secondary WD 500GB 7200rpm
No model numbers given but allowing that it's a Caviar Black 1TB. 9

Phenom II X4 940
Slower than about 9 quad core CPUs currently. In the big picture that's pretty good really. 8

Thermaltake SpinQ heatsink
It may look cool but it's not. Cooling performance is 7C poorer than heatsinks costing far less. 6

Crossfire 2 XFX HD4850 512MB
You have not supplied any monitor info. Given your apparent budget I will assume a resolution of 1680x1050. 8

8.00GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800
Overkill. Games don't use more than 4GB. Wasted money that could have gone to a better CPU or case. AMD DDR2 motherboards do best with 1066 RAM not 800Mhz. 5

750W Antec ATX12V
EA750? TP-750? Well, either is good. 9

1 Samsung DVD/RW X24 and 1 Sony DVD/RW
OK, but not Blu-ray. 8

3 x 120MM Fans
And where would you be putting these? The Sagitta comes with two and has space for one more. What kind of fans?

Bang for the buck
You overspent on the memory and heatsink, and the motherboard is a question mark. Not bad over all. 7

You have scored 73 out of a possible 100. Rounding down you score a 7.