20,000 Budget Cheap Affordable Gaming Core 2 Quad Rig PC Clone Assemble for Pasukan Season

"Pasukan na naman!" Here's a cheap and affordable Core 2 Quad gaming pc clone that you can assemble for a 20,000 pesos budget. 

Start your classes with a new computer that you can use not only for your home works, assignments or projects but also for hardcore gaming.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 - 6,700.00

Memory: Kingston 2 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 - 2,450.00

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 320gb SATA - 2,150.00

Video Card: Powercolor HD4670 1GB DDR3 - 3,500.00

Motherboard: ECS G31T-M7 Intel G31 -2,000.00

DVDRW: Liteon DVDRW SATA LS - 1,300.00

Casing: Orion Glacier 5825 ATX 600W - 1,180.00

Keyboard: A4tech Comport Key - 285.00

Mouse: A4tech ok-720 USB - 150.00

Total:  19,750.00

The prices for the above equipment parts were based on prices in Gilmore Quezon City Philippines. So it will vary defending on the computer shop where you will buy. It is ideal to look for different computer shop in Gilmore Center and ask for their discounted or packaged price.
Study hard and enjoy your new computer this "Pasukan". :)

15,000 Budget Cheap Affordable Gaming Rig PC Clone Assemble for Christmas Season

It's Christmas Time! Here's a cheap and affordable gaming rig pc clone that you can assemble for a 15,000 pesos budget. I know you have save your money for your computer and I hope this might help you or give you idea how will you spend your money for a value pc.
If you already have a computer and just want to upgrade it to a gaming rig, all you need is just a new unit or the so-called "cpu only" by many. Anyways, take a look at this gaming rig for less than 15,000 pesos.






Processor:        AMD Athlon 64 X2 240 2.8Ghz AM3 - 2,950.00
Memory:          Kingston 2GB PC5300 DDR2 667 - 2,150.00
Hard Drive:      Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200rpm SATA -2,200.00
Video Card:      PowerColor HD4650 512MB DDR2 128Bit DVI - 2,480.00
Motherboard:   ECS G13M Intel G31 PCIE/A/V/L/ -2,100.00
DVD Writer:    Liteon DVDRW IHAS-324 24X Sata -  1,275.00
Casing:             Gleam GM03A ATX 500W - 1,180.00
Keyboard:        A4tech Comfort Key KR-85 -285.00
Mouse:             A4tech OP-620 PS2 Optical - 220.00

                                                                                                 Total:  14,840.00

The prices for the above equipments were based on pcgilmore in Gilmore Quezon City Philippines. So it will vary defending on the computer shop where you will buy. It is ideal to look for different computer shop in Gilmore Center and ask for their discounted or packaged price.
You may also ask for upgrades where you can have a higher processor, memory or video card for additional fees. But somehow, that will give you idea for you budget gaming pc for this christmas. Enjoy your bonus! :)

Strange Sounds Coming From Computer

Computer won't boot and there are strange sounds coming from it. Some sounds that are coming from your computer means serious problems. If you think or suspects that your hard disk drive's life is nearly coming to an end, the safest thing to do is to turn off your computer immediately.
To find out if the hard disk drive is causing the strange noise, disconnect the drive's power cable before turning the computer back on. After you turned on your computer (this time the power cable of your hard drive is disconnected) and there is no more strange sound coming from your computer, that means there's a problem with your hard drive.
If the hard drive is the noise source, your next step is to download a utility that can read the SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) diagnostics codes off the hard drive. SMART data can tell you exactly what's wrong. Here's some of the link to drive's SMART utility download page.

IBM(Hitachi)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm

Fujitsu
http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1

Samsung
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm
FAQ: Low level format

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Another thing to consider are the fans in your computer. If you are concerned about an unusual fan noise, you can use some utility for monitoring your computer system temperature. You can use the free SpeedFan Tool to see if a cooling fan attached to your motherboard is spinning too slowly.

SpeedFan allows you to have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause. Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for interesting chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages, fan speeds and temperatures.

Some parts of your computer will fry themselves if not cooled, and a new fan costs far less than a new CPU or Video Card. So please maintain your PC by cleaning it regularly and by keeping it strange noise free.