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SADLY OUR RESIDENT BLUEPRINTER has had to take some unexpected time off, so it’s fallen to el big cheeso here (he was never any good in his Spanish classes) to implement some changes.

So what’s been happening? Well in short, major price drops on both our builds, and some significant part shuffles to prepare for our new cases dropping next issue. And it’s about time! For our AMD build we’ve opted to go for the Ryzen 3 3100 quad-core processor. It’s a favorite of ours at the moment for budget builds, complete with four cores and eight threads. OK, so it’s not about to win any rendering competitions, but only two years ago this was the high-end staple core count for all of us in the