Affordable Gaming Desktop PCs - CyberPower Gamer Infinity HD 4850

• CPU: Intel Core i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
• FAN: Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System
• MOTHERBOARD:
  Asus P6T SE Intel X58 Chipset Triple-Channel
  DDR3/1600 SATA RAID
  
• MEMORY: 3GB (1GBx3) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory
• VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 1GB Video Card
• HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
• DVD Drive: LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Dual Layer Drive
  
• SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
• POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts Power Supplies (SLI Ready Power Supply)
• OS: Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium

With this desktop PC's surprisingly low starting price of just $1019, the CyberPower Gamer Infinity HD 4850 is one of the rare cheap gaming computers that will be able to run even the most resource intensive PC games currently on the market. The ATI graphics card is one of the better cards you will find included in similarly priced gaming desktop pcs, and there are scores of available upgrades you can upgrade to on their website if you choose to. The Intel Core i7, despite only 2.66 GHz, is still a capable quad core CPU; and that too can be customized or upgraded as needed. If you are looking to buy a cheap desktop PC that is capable of playing current gen PC games, the CyberPower Gamer Infinity HD 4850 is certainly an attractive option.

There are certainly better (more expensive) gaming desktop pcs available on the market, but this desktop PC's factory build is probably the best default gaming build I've seen offered. If you don't know a lot about specific hardware speeds or ratings, the Gamer Infinity HD 4850 will deliver the needed power without much customization. However if you feel comfortable there are tons of options available to customize both the aesthetic appeal, and the desktop pc's hardware. You can look through these options, and place an order at the

CyberPower Website.

Strategy PC Game Hearts of Iron 3 Introduction

Paradox interactive released Hearts of Iron 3 a couple of weeks ago, and have already begun taking community feedback and improving their game further. One patch has already been released, and a second is planned by the end of August. I plan to write a full review at that point, but there is still plenty to be excited about and share until then. Here are some additional images of the HOI3 map, much improved over the featured map in Hearts of Iron 2. Although bigger is obviously better, I give more details on whats been improved with the Hearts of Iron map in my first Hoi3 Hub. I will detail more new features in additional Hubs, with updates here of course. Hearts of iron 3 hub

Nvidia GTX 295 Video Card

With a processor clock speed at over 1200MHz The Geforce GTX 295 is a top end desktop PC's graphics card. This single card combines two GTX 200 GPUs, and as if it weren't a powerful enough graphics card in its own right, the Nvidia Geforce GTX 295 also supports Quad SLI configuration. Meaning you can install two of these monsters in your desktop and allowing your PC's video card to combine the power of 4 GTX 200 GPUs working together through SLI.




GPU Speed: 1,242 MHz
Processor Cores: 480 ( 240 per GPU )
Texture Fill Rate: 92.2 billion/sec
Memory I/O : 896-bit ( 448-bit per GPU )
Memory Size: 1,792 MB GDDR3
Memory Speed: 223.8 GB/sec
Interface Type: Two Dual Link DVI and HDMI


The numbers of the GTX 295 are pretty mind boggling, and there are no current games that require anything close to the graphics power you'd get by combining 2 of these units in your gaming desktop PC's case. If you don't want to read or worry about system requirements on any new PC release for the foreseeable future, you may consider the cost of the extreme graphics card worth it though.