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Coming April 16th: A ~$500 Gaming PC

You asked for it and we’re delivering. We publish the first part today and we’ll publish the second part on Thursday. Our low cost System Builder Marathon gaming PC costs around $1,000. Many of you feel that’s too high. So, we’re accepting your challenge and on Wednesday, we’ll see how much gaming performance we can squeeze out of a PC in the $500 range.

We know some of you will still be unimpressed and will let us know about your disappointment in the Forums, but we think most of you will be taken by the components we’ve chosen for this mini-System Builder Marathon and the performance the components deliver when pulled together in a low cost PC.

So, go ahead and experience the new Tom’s Hardware for yourself and to verify that, while the look and feel of this race car is different, the only changes we made under the hood were designed to give you more of what you know and love.

Sneak preview: We’ll be using Antec’s NSK4480B case and power supply as the foundation of our $500 PC.

Join our discussion on this article!


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gxsolace 04/16/2008 5:38 AM
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Oooo, shiny!
nucreation 04/16/2008 6:08 AM
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I love the new look, but the light blue is a little hard to read for headlines and stuff sometimes.
Deleted profile 04/16/2008 6:09 AM
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congratulation !!
Icehearted 04/16/2008 7:43 AM
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"This new look confuses and infuriates us!"

But seriously, slick!
IDontWantTo 04/16/2008 8:20 AM
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The new charts section is a disaster! Slow and unuseable!

Give me back the original! >:(
codeman03xx 04/16/2008 9:25 AM
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WE HATE THE NEW LOOK!!!!!!! I must say this new "design" lacks usability testing, rough drafts should have been done. First off its too much junk on the first page. Put hardware/news on left side and still show pictures. The rest of the main page should have links on the right to other sections like Games, Entertainment exc. Its hard to keep track of that many articles. There could at least be clear visible dates (White background with Grey text is bad) with them if you get rid of pictures. Remember a picture says 1000 words, and the human brain can only remember about 7-16 words/numbers at a time for long term memory, so if you make all users remember 800 words for 20 posted articles you will have very angry uses. Also test color choices. Not all people can see properly or have monitors that have the same brightness/contrast.
Deleted profile 04/16/2008 10:43 AM
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The new charts are indeed a disaster! The default view only shows you the boring old products. And they are completely unsorted. It took me a while to find the button "View all products". That exposes ALL products even the the latest models. But what's the point in presenting old boring products in the first place.

I want the old charts back! One simple view of all products tested in a sorted manner. I want to see all models right at the begining without clicking on some button that I need to look for. Easter is over, folks.
Douken 04/16/2008 11:07 AM
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Quote by: IDontWantTo "The new charts section is a disaster! Slow and unuseable!

Give me back the original!"

Bloody Right mate
Douken 04/16/2008 11:08 AM
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Quote by: IDontWantTo "The new charts section is a disaster! Slow and unuseable!

Give me back the original!"

Bloody Right mate
Douken 04/16/2008 11:10 AM
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Quote :"The new charts section is a disaster! Slow and unuseable!

Give me back the original!"


Bloody Right mate
Douken 04/16/2008 11:11 AM
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IDontWantTo :
The new charts section is a disaster! Slow and unuseable!Give me back the original! >



Bloody Right Mate
waldo_ii 04/16/2008 11:26 AM
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The charts page is just aweful. One the charts list, you should have at least a box with all of the charts (Small, common charts on top like VGA, CPU, and less used ones on bottom) so we can get to the charts easier.

And the charts themselves have to be smaller. With the old charts, you could see nearly all of the components at once. Now we have to scroll tons to see the component we want, and then we have to scroll back and forth to compare two components.
kyee7k 04/17/2008 1:06 AM
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I liked the scrolling forum threads from the old format.
Deleted profile 04/17/2008 4:38 AM
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each re-design looks worse and un-user-friendly for like... the past 10 years.
Deleted profile 04/17/2008 4:40 AM
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each redesign looks worse and un-user-friendly than the previous version for like... the past 10 years.
_spanky_ 04/17/2008 5:05 AM
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Big step backwards. Slow, missing charts (ie desktop cpu charts ). Been using the old site last couple of days for the first time. Easily found all the info I was looking for. Now I can’t find anything. Who talked you guy’s into changing this? Want the old back.
deathsycthehe11 04/17/2008 5:14 AM
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It looks cool and all, but definitely not easier to use. It almost like the NBA homepage. It gets so confusing when you put so much stuff, but I'll get use to it. Gotta change the Latest News chart. I like the old one, it was easy acesss, then this...Now I have to click through the pages... please please change that...
chuck21 04/17/2008 5:15 AM
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Yeah, the white background with light blue letters is not cutting it. It's hard on the eyes. There's too much WHITE too. a darker shades of background would be nice. I find it odd that you guys are missing very basic points of website creation.
chuck21 04/17/2008 5:16 AM
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Yeah, the white background with light blue letters is not cutting it. It's hard on the eyes. There's too much WHITE too. a darker shades of background would be nice. I find it odd that you guys are missing these very basic points of website creation.
maxinexus 04/17/2008 6:09 AM
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Hate the new look!!! Worst job are charts. Before they were very easy to read now...HORRIBLE. At least do color change between different brands...AMD INTEL SEAGATE WD etc...please you are killing my eyes...light blue color I would fire your designer. If I had 5 thumbs 4 would be pointing down.

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