BLUEPRINTS

Budget

Spending wisely.

Although we considered properly swapping out the motherboard in our AMD Budget build this issue, Asrock’s Phantom Gaming 4 remains a most affordable full-ATX scale B550 motherboard. Stock availability has seen it come off sale though, so we’ve made a slight swap over to the AC model, adding Wi-Fi to this machine. We’ve got a new chip too; high demand for the Ryzen 5 3600 has seen it jump in price, while its big brother the 3600X is just a few dollars more so we’re not resisting that