BUDGET
A perfect balance between price and peformance.
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