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  reached a stable level. AMD’s Ryzen 3 3100 has remained in the budget AMD build, and for good reason. Firstly, $200 is a reasonable price tag for this chip. Secondly, it’s great for what we want. The 3100 8-thread CPU gives us a decent experience with the additionally boosted speeds we had over the Ryzen 3 1200 from two issues ago. For now, it can sit comfortably in this build. The motherboard remains the same. The addition of the Ryzen 3 3100 brings a few perks, one of which is PCIe 4.0. We upgraded last time to the MSI B550M Pro motherboard to speed up data transferring in our budget AMD build. Paired with the XPG Gammix S50 Lite we added last time, this will ensure ultra snappy speeds. This

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