Is Intel HD 2000 Good for Gaming?

Many of my friends asking "is Intel HD 2000 good for gaming?", and I tell to them "yes you can playing games with Intel HD 2000 on-board graphics card", but wait, you have to adjust settings on the games with low to medium settings and please use low resolution such as with 1280x720px or 1024x768px. As one of the new generation of Intel HD series from Intel Sandy Bridge processors, HD 2000 and also HD 3000 is nice on-board graphics card for limited-budget user who need a cheap computer without add-on graphics card. Well, here is the Intel HD 2000 gaming benchmark result, enjoy.

Foxconn H61MX | Foxconn Motherboard

Foxconn H61MX is one of cheap value socket 1155 motherboard for Intel Sandy Bridge series from Foxconn motherboard, it has been powered by Intel H61 chipset which it looks perfect for entry level computer users. Almost the same with another H61 motherboards, Foxconn H61MX comes with uATX form factor and compact motherboard layout, it's not ATX motherboards but still okay. There is something special from Foxconn H61MX motherboard, there is only available 2x slots of memory module, 1x PCIe x16 2.0 version, and 4 SATA2. It's not bad and good enough for daily computer needs.

Is Intel 1155 Good Enough for Gaming?

Is Intel 1155 good enough for gaming? absolutely yes !! all Intel socket 1155 Sandy Bridge are good enough for gaming, even the smallest i3 2100 has powerful for gaming. Before I knew about Intel Sandy Bridge processor with socket 1155 motherboard, I always interested about AMD Athlon II and Phenom II line-up, it's because the AMD line-up has cheap prices and good enough for gaming, but after Sandy Bridge Intel 1155 was born, it's the bad moment for AMD processor in gaming market. Is it all true? let see together I will show you, Sandy Bridge processor line-up chart and gaming performance

Intel Sandy Bridge Processor with HD 3000 & HD 2000 Graphics Line-Up

Intel Sandy Bridge processor comes with HD graphics such as Intel HD 3000 and Intel HD 2000, and here is the specs line-up. It's comes from Intel i7-2600K to i3-2100 and also to the smallest line-up Intel Pentium G620. You have to know that not all the Sandy Bridge processor comes with the same graphics, for examples, the Intel HD 3000 it's only comes with Sandy Bridge with K label or K code, you can see Intel i7-2600K and Intel i5-2500K edition. Here is the Sandy Bridge and Intel HD Graphics details.

Asrock H61-U3S3 / H61M - Good Cheap Intel Sandy Bridge Motherboard

It's cheap motherboard for Sandy Bridge that I can found in the market, guys.. are you looking for good and cheap motherboard for your Intel Sandy Bridge processor? it's Asrock H61-U3S3 also named Asrock H61M/U3S3. This motherboard has supported the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processor such as Intel i3 2100, i5-2300, even i7 2700K. The best thing from Asrock H61-U3S3 is cheap prices, this motherboard has released with prices around $70 - $80 (taken, Oct, 2011). We know that today Intel Sandy Bridge has dominated the cpu line-up on the market, why? it's because the performance of this cpu has good performance. For example is Intel i3 2100, this is one of the best cheap Intel Sandy Bridge processor on the market and it's good for gaming. If you planing to build a low cost gaming computer with Intel Sandy Bridge, the Asrock H61-U3S3 and Intel i3 2100 is one of the best combinations, it's also cheap prices.

Asrock H61M/U3S3 comes with best solid capacitors, it's comes fully 100% Japan-made high-quality conductive Polymer capacitors, it's produces a high durability and Asrock claimed it's 2.5 x longer life time, nice, if you want to upgrade your Intel i3 series, you can use it and Asrock H61-U3S3 also supported Intel Sandy Bridge K series.

Intel i3 2100 Processor

Intel i3 2100 Processor is the latest Intel I3 processor family, this processor released a few month ago and a lot of computer user like this processor, i3 2100 also has good performance for gaming, and I know that Intel want to get the best position in the entry level and it's done, Intel i3 is awesome !! Intel i3 2100 is dual core processor with 4 thread, here is some specs from Intel official website :

Processor Number : i3-2100
# of Cores : 2
# of Threads : 4
Clock Speed : 3.1 GHz
Intel® Smart Cache : 3 MB

Bus/Core Ratio : 31
DMI : 5 GT/s
Instruction Set : 64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions : SSE4.1/4.2, AVX
Embedded Options Available : No
Lithography : 32 nm
Max TDP : 65 W
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) : 32 GB
Memory Types : DDR3-1066/1333
# of Memory Channels : 2
Max Memory Bandwidth : 21 GB/s