Sub £500 gaming systems from aria.co.uk
Gladiator IBIS Deluxe Intel Core i3-2100 £449
Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5 DirectX 11 PCI-Express Graphics Card
4GB Mushkin Silverline #996768 (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz 9-9-9-24
1TB Seagate Barracuda Green ST1000DL002 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2 Intel H61 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard
500W Coolermaster Elite Power ATX2.3 Power Supply
BitFenix Outlaw Black Midi Tower Chassis
LG 22x DVD-RW SATA Black Optical ReWriter Drive
Gladiator Punisher Pro AMD Llano 3850 £399
AMD Llano A8-3850 2.90GHz (Socket FM1) Processor
Radeon HD 6550D DirectX 11 Graphics
4GB Mushkin Blackline #996659B (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
1TB Seagate Barracuda Green ST1000DL002 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2HP AMD Hudson D3 (Socket FM1)
450W Coolermaster GX 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply
BitFenix Merc Alpha Black Midi Tower Chassis
LG 22x DVD-RW SATA Black Optical ReWriter Drive
Both of these systems are bellow £500, In terms of performance, the IBIS intel system is better than the Punisher AMD system. However the AMD system is cheaper. The i3 2100 is faster than the AMD APU, despite the fact that the APU has twice the cores, the extremely effcient sandybridge architecture of the i3 means it is faster in most benchmarks. Also the GPU built into the AMD chip is not as fast as the graphics card in the Intel system, it is not capable of running as graphically intence applications as the intel system.
