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We're taking a bit of a punt here - an Intel quad is the more obvious choice, but the cheapest option is the Core i5 4430 at around £140. The former is an interesting alternative choice at the initial build stage - it matches the FX-6300's clock speeds, but it offers an additional two cores for around £25 more.
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In theory at least, there should be plenty of power here - plus there's an upgrade path to the eight-core AMD chips, the FX-8320 and the FX-8350.
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It features six available cores at 3.5GHz (boosting to 4GHz when thermal headroom is available) and on top of the clock-speed advantages over next-gen console, it has higher IPC (instructions per clock) than the Jaguar cores in the PS4 and Xbox One. In the here and now, Intel's dual-core i3 is still competitive, but we suspect that games will be designed with many-core architectures in mind going forward and the FX-6300 offers excellent value at just over £80.
Next-gen console game development is based on six available CPU cores clocked at 1.6GHz/1.75GHz (PS4 and Xbox One respectively), so we should expect all major games to be multi-core aware going forward - and if they're not, they're really going to suffer.
Intel is the obvious choice for PC gaming, right? Well, we've gone for AMD with our set-up. Manage cookie settings The left-field CPU choice: AMD FX-6300 This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. With that out of the way, let's talk components and build costs. It's no real secret that PC gaming is substantially cheaper, so we have no problems re-investing a little of that cash into hardware that should - in theory at least - offer up a higher-quality gameplay experience. Consider the recent release of Thief: on Xbox One and PS4, the game costs £47 on Amazon, while the PC edition is just £22 on the same site.
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While the cost of the console is a relatively low base cost, the PC has no service subscription to maintain and software will also be cheaper.
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By shopping around you should be able to get a legit copy of Windows 7 for around £50, giving us a £500 total. For the current sweet-spot in price vs performance, GPU-wise, we recommend the Radeon R9 270, if you can find one on sale in the £120 area. However, numerous models are available costing just £13 if you want to add that functionality to your PC. Our design omits an optical drive owing to the rise of digital delivery on the PC platform.
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OEM versions of Windows 7 Professional are available on eBay for under £50, meaning that an entire working PC can be built to a budget of £500. All that's missing is an operating system. Here's an outline of the costs in building your own Digital Foundry PC. Right now, nothing is going to beat the power offered by PlayStation 4 at £350, so we've increased the budget - the aim being to affect a truly transformative gameplay experience. Our new hardware also factors in the leap in GPU performance required to keep pace with the power of the new consoles, but it's also based on keeping to a reasonable budget. The new Digital Foundry PC acknowledges that an improved balance between CPU and GPU power is required, at the same time recognising that gaming development is moving away from fast single-core performance and gravitating more towards many cores operating at lower frequencies. To put it simply, a dual-core CPU wouldn't cut it for 60fps gaming - not even at 720p, though 1080p30 was mostly fine. We had a lot of fun with that kit, but across the months, its weaknesses became steadily more apparent. Back in June 2012, we put together the Digital Foundry PC - a £300 piece of hardware with around 4x the power of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We've had some experience in constructing affordable games PCs. But can we go one better? Can we build a PC that provides a quantifiably better, truly transformative experience? And can we do it at with a competitive budget? It's often been said that both next-gen consoles are effectively based on mid-range PC technology, and as our recent tests indicate, matching or even exceeding current Xbox One or PS4 performance with modest PC components doesn't seem to be too difficult.