The retail version of the CPU mention above is the Intel Core i5 3470 and is about £150. The newer Haswell CPU is the Intel Core i5 4570 and is about £157. This processor has much faster integrated graphics and would probably be all you need. Well if you think the ancient GTS 210 from nvidia is good enough :-)
Haswell is a socket 1150 CPU so needs a different motherboard - so a little future proofing as next year there will be a faster CPU for that socket. This newer motherboard would be a little more expensive.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Wed 3 Jul 13 at 11:05
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