It’s World Cyber Games again. The Asian Championship is once again, held in Singapore.
Last year, I did a coverage on the gaming rig that was used there. This year, I am going to do it again.
As usual, the organiser is going to sell the gaming rigs after the competition at a bargain price.
The rig specification is as follows:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83 Ghz, 1333 Mhz FSB, 12MB L2 Cache
- MSI P45 Neo2-FR
- Aeneon X-Tune 2GB DDR2-1066 CL5 RAM
- Seagate SATA-II 250GB HDD
- XpertVision GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB GDDR3 PCI-E x16 Graphics Card
- Samsung 20x DVD Rewriter
- CoolerMaster Centurion 534 Casing
- CoolerMaster Extreme Power 460W
- Logitech/Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
- Samsung T220 22″ LCD 2ms response time / DVI interface
- 1 year warranty
Price? SG$ 1,688. This is a pretty good price if you want to buy a new computer right now.
The downside of the deal is that 2GB of RAM seems too little for Windows Vista. The Windows Vista should be 32-bit as it is not stated. Graphics wise, 9600 GT is good enough, but HD4850 will be better. The PSU is also not powerful enough. At least a 500W will be fine.
You can make your interest known to the organiser here.
The World Cyber Games gaming rig is for pre-order, collect after the event ends on 5th August.
The specification of the WCG (Asian) Gaming Rig is as follows:
The CPU itself costs SGD 1599 with the 7% GST, and the LCD monitor costs SGD 499. Buying the CPU and LCD bundle will allow you to save SGD 99.
If you go down the the Singapore hardware shopping centre, Sim Lim Square, you can get the above set at an average price of SGD 1650 (with some variations of hardware due to hardware availability). Here is the breakdown of the component costs:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q660 with Abit IP35E Main Board ~ SGD 652
- 2 x 1 GB Kingston DDR2 667 Mhz RAM ~ SGD 142
- XpertVision nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256 DDR3 RAM ~ SGD 217
- 250 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II HDD ~ SGD 113
- Coolermaster Centurion 5 ~ SGD 70
- Samsung 18X DVD-RW (No Lightscribe) ~ SGD 47
- Windows Vista Home Premium ~ SGD 171
Considering the prices of the components, it is relatively worth it to buy the WCG gaming rig, since it is already assembled for you and tested (rigorously through out the 4 days). All you need to do is to collect it after the event ends. You can request for a deilvery, but it will cost you SGD 60.
If your PC is more than 3 years old, and you are deprived of the latest games and impressive visual effects, this is the one for you.
Getting a Quad-core may not be practical due to the lack of games that requires multi-threading. Most games only require a dual-core processor to attain the recommended specification. The graphics card is also not powerful enough to play games in the DirectX 10 environment in Windows Vista, i will recommend a 8800GTS 320MB over 8600GT.
If you are interested in this sale, you can email the organiser to pre-order the items.
