Palicomp Intel i5 Elite

Tactical over clocking produces a surprisingly powerful desktop PC for a sensible amount of money

SASHA MULLER

PRICE £500 (£600 inc VAT) from palicomp.co.uk (pcpro.link/249palicomp) While a cutting-edge desktop PC may cost thousands of pounds, more affordable models can still be highly capable. The Palicomp Intel i5 Elite costs less than a top-end graphics card, yet packs in serious CPU power and even modest gaming performance for £600. Wisely, Palicomp has invested a big chunk of the budget in an Intel Core i5-4690K processor. It’s a CPU that wouldn’t be out of place in a £1,000 PC, and Palicomp has given it a further boost by over clocking it from 3.5GHz to 4.6GHz. The graphics card, meanwhile, may look diminutive, but Nvidia’s half-height GeForce GTX 750 punches well above its weight. And Palicomp has again bumped up its performance: the Gigabyte-branded card comes with core and boost clocks pushed from…

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