IS THAT A DELL XPS 410?
i'm still shaky on the i3, but i guess it's cheaper to get that than the AMD.the AMD is a power whore compared to the i3, but i've found some benchmarks that had the AMD, and it exceeded the i7-2600K.i just don't know.
Ethan, sorry for the (very) late reaction, but my first PCI-E port is 10cm/3.93inch, and the others are 3cm/1.20inch.
Although AMD is good for budget builds, go with the i3, reason is, later you can upgrade to an i5-2500K, which beats all of AMD's processors.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.756376&cm_sp=DIY_PC_Combos-_-756376-_-ComboGood y/n?
Well, everything is reasonable apart from the motherboard (low quality), and the PSU.Also, for a $300 system it's not very good to skip on quality parts just for a 6 core which doesn't have much advantage over a 4 core.Although the best benefit is that it does include a cheap hard drive. I'd personally still go for the $300 system in OP though, minus the HDD and plus a ODD (you can get a cheap HDD off eBay or another site).
Did I miss something or has the price of hard drives skyrocketed?
