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LETTERS

> Mismatched Modules

> Sitting on the periphery

> Almighty AMD

Sale of the century

In your console killer feature (August 2022 issue), you used the Asus RTX 3070Ti TUF GPU with a street price of $900. I just got that very same card from Best Buy on a Prime Day sale for nearly half that, at $499!

Also, on Sam’s Build It in the same issue (Page 66), he had a R yzen 9 CPU along with an RX 6650 XT GPU—that’s quite some mismatch. I understand the logistics issues you face right now, but perhaps when you do these builds, a word about the mismatch might be appropriate. I remember previous editors screaming about such mismatches… all in all, a great issue though.

–R. Matlow

I, for one, cannot wait for the day when we can finally drop the ‘street price’ columns from our Specifications tables! Not only from a formatting perspective—I’m a stickler for a clean spreadsheet—but also from a mathematical perspective so we no longer need to calculate both a

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