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BUILD A 5GHz GAMING PC FOR £799 IN VAT While the Core i7-8700K is hogging most of the Coffee Lake limelight, it’s the Core i3-8350K that’s perhaps the most interesting chip in the lineup. It’s immensely overclockable, and it’s also a full quad-core chip for well under £200, making it ideal for building a budget gaming system. In fact, if you follow our advice, you can build a 5GHz, liquid-cooled quadcore gaming PC, complete with an M.2 SSD and Nvidia Pascal graphics, for under £800. In this feature we’ll show you how it’s done, from which components to choose, through assembling the system to overclocking both the CPU and GPU. The end result is a superb budget machine that can play games at top settings at 1080p, and it looks good too.