Best CPU option for a low budget Socket 775 Gaming PC?Of all the PCs I have built, my personal favourite is what I call the TrashTop v2. This computer came to be from the actions of a very dedicated fan who I meet every year during Gamescom, Europe's biggest game conference.This fan has a hobby of rescuing PC components from scrapyards in Germany and he shares some his spoils with me every time we encounter. At some point, I started going over the small pile of components that resulted from this friendship and wondered what would be the best PC I could build.The result was the following: Motherboard: GA-p35-ds4 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 RAM: 8 GB of DDR2 GPU: GTX 570Which has a referential price of about €160 and is able to play a large number of modern games with acceptable performance.And while the results are impressive given the price, the decade-old CPU was the main limiting point of this setup. I started looking at upgrades while maintain...
