(01-22-2012, 03:20 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Quote:(I actually can scrap together a gaming build for $275.
Still more expensive than any i5.
And your build still fails to provide a case or discrete graphics card. And certainly could not be considered a gaming rig. I stand by my challenge of anyone building a $200 rig worthy of being called a gaming rig without resorting to buying used parts on ebay.
Quote:(Though to be fair, the g440 is one of Intel's slowest desktop processors in a long time, but it is ONE processor as opposed to an entire goddamn LINE of fuck-ups.)
Intel (and every chip maker for that matter) always has a super cheap, but slow processor at the very bottom of their lineup. That's the whole point. It's designed to be the "minimalist option". The original celeron in 1998 was introduced for that very reason, and they have kept doing it ever since. It's not a "f*ck up" because while it is slow it's also super cheap and has insane energy efficiency.
The apex thingy is a case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6811154088
Also, the G440 is energy efficient?
I retract my thoroughly offensive comment.