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THE BUILDS

BUDGET

AT THE TIME OF WRITING, a whole new range of chips and GPUs are available. Exciting times, then, for our new blueprint machines? Well, yes and no. For the mid-range and turbo machines, yes, but unfortunately we don’t get to add these new toys into our budget machines just yet. For now, our budget CPUs and GPUs don’t alter.

For team Intel, that means that the trusty Core i5-12600K is once again at the wheel, although it does partner up with a new GPU. Yes, we know we just said nothing had changed, but hold on, it’s nothing to get too excited about. Fluctuations

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