Valid from 7th May - 14th May 2013

£899 Desktop PC Windows 7 Home Premium or 8 Pro

Core i7 3770k

8 Gb DDR3 Corsair Vengeance 1866 MHz 

22X Samsung DVD/Cd ReWriter

240 Gb Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD

320 Gb Western Digital 7200 RPM Storage Drive

Radeon HD 7870 2 Gb Graphics Card

InWin Dragon Slayer Case

750w Modular PSU

To the right below are the passmark score vs. the AMD higher clocked 8 Core Piledriver  bear in mind the AMD has 8 physical cores, The Intel has 4 which are hyper Threaded so 4 Intel ivy bridge cores @3.5 GHZ vs.. 8 AMD cores @4.0 GHZ

The FFXIV benchmark tells the story