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I’ve been a reader since Boot #1 and your magazine has guided my builds and upgrades for a long, long time. My current system is an i7-3770K based system that I built back when that chip first launched, and it’s housed in an even older Gigabyte Aurora 3D 570 case. With a GTX 970 video card and 16GB of RAM, it still handles Overwatch and WoW at 1920x1200 just fine. However, there’s no escaping that it is old, and with games like Cyberpunk 2077 and MechWarrior 5 coming, I can see a new system sometime soon in my future.

I plan to go to a smaller form factor, and I’m not sure I want

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