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i5 8400 pricing?
- Thread starter rtho782
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How annoying.
I have a couple of friends wanting to build reasonably low end PCs and the 8400 was my go to recommendation (no GPU needed as no gaming and no photo editing etc).
Going the AMD route means a quad core or fitting a GPU into the budget, plus the ITX options are thin on the ground.
I have a couple of friends wanting to build reasonably low end PCs and the 8400 was my go to recommendation (no GPU needed as no gaming and no photo editing etc).
Going the AMD route means a quad core or fitting a GPU into the budget, plus the ITX options are thin on the ground.
The ITX options on the AMD side are thin on the ground, and actually more expensive than the intel options. Add in the need for a GPU on the 2600 and you're getting close to eating much of the price saving on the CPU. It's also a much higher TDP CPU and with a GPU as well, so is somewhat defeating the object of a small low power PC.
I think I'll just make him wait for prices to normalise.
I think I'll just make him wait for prices to normalise.