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It only costed £50 which was what surprised me, the 6 core lga1366 Xeons are ridiculously cheap now. It looks like an incredible budget CPU now, far better than a G3258 which I was going to buy. I've scoured forums and from what it seems, it's easily capable of 4.0 GHz which could help with the...

Quick update if anyone's interested, i've ended up going for an x5650

Guys I definitely think I'm going for the i7 now. Thank you all for your great answers!

Do you think there would be any bottleneck if I paired it with a gtx 980 in theory, what I can do is splurge on a graphics card and upgrade later to sky lake or the new Amd CPUs when they come out. Thank you for all the answers so far btw

I'm looking to build a cheap machine to play some games and maybe get a bit of work done p. Light photoshop etc and Ak can pick up the i7 and an msi x58 board for £90. It's a good deal for sure but is the i7 still viable for gaming and how would it compare to an 8350 or i3 (both overclocked)?

Hi all. Now I was wondering what my new PC should be and would it be a good idea to get a used i7 950 and x58 motherboard combo for the same price as a G3258/i3 and motherboard. I will be mainly gaming and light productivity in applications like Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc. I'm coming from an...

Hi guys, I need a bit of help at the moment. I'm all out of Memory sticks and I don't have a big enough DVD to burn an ISO onto so I can boot from it. The only thing I have are Hard drives so I'm looking to make a bootable Hard Drive so I can install Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Can anyone please...

I will pick best solution unless anyone else has a better alternative... If anyone knows of one which arrives sooner please let me know so I can cancel the order.

I know it's very late to be ordering but does anyone know of a retailer still taking pre orders for the xbox one which will be delivered on realise day Nov 22 within a few days of the console coming out? Thanks in advance!