BUDGET
CREATING A BUDGET build for under $1K may not result in a top-end machine, but it does force you to think about how to spend your money wisely. With new AMD and Intel chips coming towards the end of the year, we hope this will reduce the price of the current budget-end CPUs, freeing some cash to spend elsewhere.
We’re not quite there yet, though. Our AMD machine sees two changes this time. First, we save $30 by swapping from ASRock to MSI for our GPU choice. Out goes the 6650 XT Challenger DOC and in comes the 6650XT MECH 2X OC. We’ve managed to
