Desire to build a gaming rig

It does give you some more room to work with, though, especially if you’re using some extra long graphics cards.

Full towers FTW, I wish I had one.

My HAF 932 isa tank, cept the feet, ive cracked em 3 times already carrying my comp to lan parties.

A desktop with these specs should be a good start for your pc gaming career

Intel ® Pentium ® Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz
1.20 GHz, 1.98 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

I would reccomend a video card of the GeForce 9 series though

Full towers are huge. I have the Antec 1200 and it takes up 3 times the space of my old computer. It has 5 120mm fans and the 200mm on the top, but the only time you hear them running is when they’re all on full blast. When they’re all on a medium setting the stock cooler on the CPU is louder, which isn’t really all that loud itself. The Antec fans are supposed to last forever too. I have yet to find this out for myself though since I’ve only had it for about a year, but they’ve been on the highest settings every day since then and I’ve never had any problems.

Like I said before, the Cooler Master is only $10 cheaper because of shipping, but I guess what it really comes down to is a matter of preference.

I have the 1200 too. Absolutely fucking massive. But it’s awesome

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