TechBattle Forum Ultimate gaming system configurations, if your trying to decided what to look for when building a great game box look no further. Read from the experts who actually play the games their systems were built for. This page will grow daily with a wealth of hands on gaming information! We all know there are so many different computer products out there its hard to choose, which one is right for you. Well we are not saying that these recommendations are the finest products on the planet, we have no endorsements from manufactures. What we are saying is this is what we have used that works BEST for us in a 8 to 16 RIG Active LAN Gaming Scenario. HEAT, THE RIG KILLER Dual Video Card Setups ATI or Nvidia BEST GAMING CARD Coming Soon BEST Ram BEST Case's BEST Gaming Mother Board's BEST Hard Drive's for the Money BEST Disk Reader/Writer CD - DVD - DL And BEST way to Protect your Rig from viruses even when on the net! When TechBattle members are called upon to build new machines, the first and most important tool is the... BEER!

It's down to business when construction begins, Geoff, Nick & Ryan busy working on today's projects, one upgrade and two new Rigs

This Rig is built with a Aluminum case running a ASUS A7V8X Mother Board, 2.6Ghz AMD CPU, 1.5 GIG DDR Ram. Built for A\V & Gaming, installed is a ATI 8500 All In Wonder Video Card. She is capable of recording raw sound and video and when your not to busy the video card has a built in TV Tuner and this Rig is equipped with a DVD player, so you can watch TV or DVD Movie's!

Almost done and going to a good home! The case being made from pure Aluminum makes it light and easy to carry around. This Rig was custom built for the newest TechBattle member! It's a secret

This Rig is built with a AMD 64Bit CPU 2 GIGs of DDR2, SATA 10000 RPM 100GIG Boot Disk and Twin intake & Exhaust Fans. She should down right fly!

Look! its the ATI 1900XTX GPU, the fastest gaming card on the planet! How did that get there?

Taken from a Email on the specs of the first LAN Game system built for the TechBattle Champion of 2000:

Rylan;

If you can write a small story about the first LAN Game
Computer I built for you. I think that would be cool. I don't remember
the specs but maybe you do?
The specs of the system you first built for me were:
Back in the summer of '99.......AMD K6-2 350MHz (it was blazing)
64 MB Ram (more than I'd ever need)
2 MB Video (you later upgraded this to a Savage3 16MB - wow, tons of video ram!)
2.5GB Hard Drive (Good 'ol Mode 4 Fujitsu drive) 8x CD-Rom (so much faster than the 1x I used on the previous computer!!)Sound Blaster 32 (It was PCI!!!!! No more ISA crap for me!!!)Oh, and a whopping 15" Amptron monitor! (I actually still have this monitor, it's on our family computer now)It was a sweet system, I played many a great LAN game with it. At the time, it was the fastest system in the group other than your own. And, it was a huge upgrade from the P1-100MHz machine I was using before it.

Courtesy Rylan Gibbons TechBattle Champion 2000