HOW TO BUILD A CUSTOM GAMING RIG

I started gaming when i was young and although am still young many years have gone by and the gaming world has evolved. With the introduction of demanding games like Crysis 3 and Assassins Creed this means you need a powerful machine.Many of you pc gamers either use your laptops or desktops for gaming but very few of us play those games at high or medium graphics. I will show you how to build a cheap rig that will tackle the latest games at medium and high graphic settings( varies with the game).

Motherboard

This is practically what defines the rest of the parts that you will need to buy. Choosing the right mobo can really be tricky for a beginner so watch out. What you require to look at before choosing a mobo is the maximum RAM supported, motherboard size, type if memory, expansion slots,, processor socket, chipset etc etc.In our case we will take an Asrock G41 motherboard that you can find on OLX at ksh4500. I know i know its not high end but as i said its a cheap rig. 

Processor

You need to make a choice between Intel and AMD but that decision should be made before buying the mobo. The processor doesn't really matter in gaming. There is no need to buy Intel i7 or i5 processors  the computational power in comparison with that of a 3.0 core 2 duo will be relatively close. It will just be a waste of your mulla. Am not saying that there will be no difference in the gaming performance, its only that the difference will not be that significant in relation to the price difference. Our choice 3.0 GHZ Core 2 duo at khs5000.

Graphics Card

This is what determines your PC's gaming performance so you need to choose something with high GPU. You will be probably be looking at either  ATI and Nvidia cards.When choosing your graphics card don't always look at memory, more memory does not always guarantee performance. What you need to look at is the slot( most use PCI express), CPU matching, power consumption and series( the more recent the better).

We are going with Nvidia Geforce GT 610 that goes for ksh6500.

RAM
There has been debate about the DDR2 and DDR3 chips in my opinion i would go with DDR3 due to the reduced latency etc. Having a higher Ram will improve multitasking by getting rid of paging file this mainly applies to games and other graphic intensive applications, We will go with 4gb Cosair ram chip it goes for ksh3200.

PSU
The PSU supplies power to all the hardware in the PC. The voltage required is determined by the type of hardware in your PC so be careful when choosing it, We will go with Cool Master GX that goes for ksh1000.

Peripherals
This include keyboard, mouse, headphones and lcd monitor.
 21' LCD monitor   ksh6000
 Multimedia keyboard  ksh500
 Mouse       ksh500
 Headphones   ksh1000

With that you have your rig and all at ksh28,200 and now you can start gaming.