Cube 247 Omega ST2

In many ways a fine buy, provided you want to spend £2,000 on a PC, of course! Apart from the noise. And the case. Our only worry about buying a system at this price point is that, by the end of the year, it would have a dual-core processor on board

Not everybody wants to buy a PC for playing games, but for those who do, the Cube247 Sigma ST7 will prove very difficult to resist.

This sparkler from Cube247 is the most expensive offering in our AMD vs Intel round-up. There's a £550 gap between this system and the Mesh Titan 5000 PPX. But if you're expecting the gap to be explained by the Mesh having an inferior chip, you'd be...

The Sigma ST5 isn't outstanding, but it's a very assured system. Cube247 has gone for safe specifications, rather than taking a risk on a hot product or two.

At this price point, Pentium 4 processors are fairly thin on the ground. This could be because Athlons are faster for the money; the Cube247's WorldBench score of 92 is three to six points off the pace set by our top Athlon PCs. Then again, there are...

Neither of the other PC categories offer the same no-holds-barred performance as the Power division. Neither, for that matter, do they provoke the same debate about what represents value for money.