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THE BUILDS

BUDGET

SO, THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME, we can upgrade our budget AMD’s CPU. We have opted for the Ryzen 3 1200 CPU and seeing it in stock on Amazon.com was a joy, to say the least. The Ryzen 3 3100 would have been way better, but at around $345, it’s more than double the price of the Ryzen 3 1200. At around $40 more than our previous CPU, we can now double our cores, but unfortunately, it won’t double our threads just yet. Hopefully, in time, the Ryzen 3 3100 will slip into the budget build and make this a great full package.

Also in our AMD build, we hunted

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