$800 'killer gaming PC'

[James]

Is it just fucking me

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 620,00.asp

or you can get the same fucking performance at least £50-£80 cheaper (this is £498)

[Siva]

It's just you.

[James]

But you CAN, there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit which shouldn't be classed for gaming

Our CPU budget was around $180—$190. For that price, we could have chosen a fast dual-core CPU or a somewhat lower-clocked quad-core processor.

This time around, we picked the quad-core Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400. Clocking at 2.66GHz, this 45nm CPU offers only 4MB of L2 cache (2MB per core). While this is a gaming rig, it's likely to end up doing other work, too, as most users don't have the luxury of having different systems for different purposes.
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Another alternative would have been a Core 2 Duo E8500. That's a perfectly fine choice if you're focused only on gaming, but even at 3.16GHz, the E8500 gives up a little to the quad-core CPUs in other applications, like photo editing or video transcoding.

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what

[Siva]

JAY

I WAS BEING SARCASTIC

Yes, you could do it for about £100 less. Or you could get better parts for the money instead.

[clyzm]

You can get an AMD quad-core setup and a GTX 260 for about $500, with almost the same performance as the one above.

At a retail price of $239, we've found this card in a couple of places for $235

lolwat
get a 4850x2 for that price lol