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BUDGET
AS PERIPHERALS and components come out with new variants and generations all the time, prices naturally creep up—something that has certainly sneaked up on us all within the tech industry. After a recent review of this section, we noticed the prices of our budget builds had increased, so we’ve reeled things back, re-evaluated these machines and got them into a more realistic ‘budget’ level. That may mean the builds taking a hit in performance, but hopefully nothing too drastic.
The first change is to swap out our Intel Core i5-12600K for a more affordable 12th-gen chip that still has integrated graphics, so we’ve gone for the Intel Core i3-12100. This chip has a max turbo frequency of 4.30GHz, four performance cores,
