Corsair Labs: December 2005 - Building a High Performance Gaming Box » Introduction

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Here in the labs we test for compatibility, performance, and stability (though not necessarily in that order). Today, though, we've taken a time out from absolutely punishing ICs from different manufacturers with cruel devices of torture known as voltage and frequency to bring you a step-by-step guide on how to build an extremely powerful home system.

This isn't going to be a "state of the art" system with liquid nitrogen and car batteries that requires protective eyewear and a good knowledge of spot welding and theoretical chemistry to build. This is something anybody can do with a little bit of patience and some basic knowledge.

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Introduction Component Selection Preparing the Case Installing the Power Supply Installing the Motherboard I/O Shield Installing the CPU Heat Sink Installation Memory Installation Assembling the Motherboard Into the Case Installing Floppy and Optical Drives Installing Sound and Video Cards Hard Drives and Cable Management BIOS Configuration Loading Windows Configuring Windows Driver Installation Overclocking and Benchmarking