To get a decent price you have to shop arround though, i picked all those specific components because they were on sale at the time, there are other manufacturers out there who offer pretty much the same thing in the same price range, if their happens to be on sale somewhere tat is what to grab, that and the socet is fairly future proof, could slot in an fx-8350 at any time should i need more cpu grunt or any other future AMD offering on the same socet with a very likely bios update.
As far as consoles go, sure the system is cheaper, but it is also far more limited in its applications, the only thing they have going for them are exclusives which will die off eventually as they are unlikely to be economically viable for much longer especially since the upcoming generation consoles have moved closer to x86
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