Our Heavy... This is the Battlestar, the Galaxy-Class starship, the Super Star Destroyer of our lineup. This is where we deliver the same performance that costs you $6,000 and up with Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Voodoo. Only it's affordable.

Only What You Need There are thousands of PC options out there. We continually seek out the best gaming technologies, leaving behind both the lackluster also-rans and the high-performers that are monstrously overpriced. Every option we offer brings something worthwhile to the table. On this page, we'll show you when those benefits would apply to you, and when they don't.

Processor: E8500 or Q9450 or QX9650 Chosen for their astounding mixture of overclockability and stability, these Intel Core 2-series processors (CPUs) offer far more processing power per dollar than anything AMD (Intel's only rival) has to offer at the moment. The E8500 and Q9450 both offer excellent performance at a similar price point. Gamers who want to embrace quad-core processing at this early stage have an excellent option with the Q9550, which we typically ship at about 3.6GHz. Muticore gaming is still in its infancy, and it will probably be at least two years before the majority of PC games are written to take advantage of four cores. For those who want to reap the more immediate benefit of running at a faster speed, the E8500 typically ships at about 4.0GHz, and will run all games slightly faster than the Q9450 until such time as multicore gaming is common. For those who want the best of both worlds, the QX9650 offers quad-core processing at roughly 4.0GHz for about $800 more. That's a big price jump for a CPU, but the benefits are worthwhile to gamers who also run other applications while they play, or who use non-game applications which are already written to use multiple CPU cores (like After Effects).

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