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Ars Technica has published a new "Bargain Box Guide" for April 2014. As I'm looking through this I poked my nose over at Tom's hardware System Builder, Q1 2014: The $750 Gaming PC. Am I completely off my rocker? How do either of these qualify as a "budget build?"
I can consistently build systems (without monitors or OS) for far less that these systems and get a quality build that will work for several years of service. Am I just cheap or have I just been broke for too long and can't fathom the expense?
Do you still build systems or have you only purchased factory built units? How would you approach your design differently?
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(Score: 1) by emg on Monday April 07 2014, @05:46PM
"I get the distinct feeling that both Ars and Tom's have a Intel bias"
Yet the very article linked to from here says in the fourth paragraph that their bargain PC last year used an AMD CPU.
The reason they picked an i3 over an AMD was probably that the i3 typically beats it in games, and runs on less power. Most games today don't use many threads, so less cores running faster beat more cores running slower.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Monday April 07 2014, @06:44PM
I get that feeling because i get a plethora of Intel ads on both pages.
Tom's has pretty frank reviews of processors. and I am happy to see they like AMD on the low cost end.