$535 BUDGET BUILD

AT MAXIMUM PC we do perhaps lean a bit too heavily on the gaming angle. That’s no doubt in part because a large majority of the team here enjoy that pastime, and the industry advances quite aggressively because of it too. So we assume you lovely folks are fond of gaming, but as old pappa Storey used to say, “Never assume anything, else you’re an idiot.” He may have been a bit unorthodox, and lacked a smidge of accuracy with his clichés, but he was also right when he said it.

So this issue we’ve decided to set ourselves a challenge—strip