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THE ALDER LAKE MACHINE

WELL, FOLKS, the time has finally come to put Intel’s latest and greatest Alder Lake chip, the Core i9-12900k, into a pretty impressive build. On the face of it, this isn’t the craziest looking rig we have ever put together, but there is serious power lurking beneath the chassis.

With this build, we are hoping to showcase some of the latest introductions to the PC market. We bring in some tasty new DDR5 RAM, Intel’s latest CPU offering, a hefty Geforce RTX 3080, and one of the latest

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