The reality is that most people would rather not spend $6,000 or $7,000 for a gaming computer. The high price point of many of these systems is mostly due to the cost of the CPU, motherboard, and graphics accelerator card. These components make up the bulk of the cost.

For example, the Genesis computer is powered by the ntel core i5-10600k CPU that is over-clocked at 5GHz and they include 3 NVIDIA GTX 580 GPU's. These are very expensive components indeed.

There are other online retailers that can offer gaming systems for under $1500. For example Cyber Power offers great gaming performance in their Gamer Xtreme 5,000. It is actually powered by the same processor as Origin's Genesis computer; the Intel Core i7-2600K CPU. It is over-clocked at 4.4GHz and their GPU of choice is a single Nvidia GeForce GTX-570.

It is interesting to note that all of PC World's top ten picks of the best gaming systems use Intel's Core i7 CPU's. A few of them even have the same CPU, the Core i7-2600K. None of the top ten gaming systems used an AMD CPU. Why not? This brings us to the ongoing debate of which gaming CPU is better; an Intel chip or an AMD chip.