The $500 Gaming Machine, 2007 Edition

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Platform
CPU AMD AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 (65 nm; 2100 MHz, 2x512 kB L2 Cache)
CPU Intel Intel Pentium Dualcore E2160 (65 nm; 1800 MHz, 1 MB Shared L2 Cache)
Motherboard AMD MSI K9AGM2-FIH, Socket AM2 (Rev. 1.02)AMD 690G Chipset
Motherboard Intel Elitegroup G33T-M2, Socket 775 (Rev. 1.0)Intel G33 Chipset
RAM Patriot PDC21G6400LLK2x 512 MB DDR2-800 (CL 5-5-5-15 2T)
Hard Disk Drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.10320 GB, 7.200 RPM, 16 MB cache, SATA/300
DVD-ROM Samsung SH-S183
Graphics Card Gigabyte Radeon HD 2600 Pro w/ Silent Pipe II CoolingGPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600Pro (600 MHz)RAM: 512 MB GDDR2 (800 MHz DDR)
Sound Card Integrated
Power Supply Silverstone ST50EF-PlusATX 2.2, 500 Watt
System Software & Drivers
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Drivers AMD Version 8.40
Platform Drivers Intel Version 8.3.0.1013
Graphics Drivers ATI Catalyst 7.8
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.