Quick Tip For System Builders

If your on a budget, yet you wanna build a nice rig and you cant quite afford the video card you want, buy a motherboard with an on-board GPU and run your system off the on-board video until you can make some good money to buy a real video card. I've done this many times in the past, especially when I was younger.

I think we all knew that, but why would you buy a new PC when you cant buy a video card.

Well if you have $600 and your total comes up to $500. and if you include the video card its $700, so what you do is build your system and run off the on-board until you can make that extra $100 to buy yourself the gpu.

I used to do this as a teenager, plus it was nice having a backup gpu if your video card died.

Hi On my last build a couple years ago,the timing was such that the new video cards

were due to be released about 3 months after I completed the build. What I did was

buy a fairly cheap video card to hold me over until the new cards came out. I would

rather have a better quality Northbridge chipset on my motherboard rather than

one that supports intergrated graphics. After doing several builds you always end

up with spare video cards. I usually give them away to a friend who is currently

using a weaker card. But at the moment I have an Nvidia 7900GS and an ATI

HD 3870 just sitting in their boxes.

better plan is to build a pc when u got all the components for the pc, because if you build a pc with everything cept the vid card and your using onboard in the meantime, then when you finally get the money for a video card and the gaming rig is complete all the other componements would have gone down in price so it would be better to wait untill you can build the whole thing, impatience never pays off.

That's a great tip many don't seem to know when they build their first rig.RedxSniper