Intel: Budget Savior?
Is Intel the answer to our sub-$1,000 Budget Build problem?
of (see pages 94-95), the most hotly contested issue of the last few months has been our Budget Builds in the Blueprints section (page 96). These builds started out costing less than $1,000, but then over the last year, they crept upwards as graphics card prices commanded ever-greater premiums. We got some feedback on this that then sparked a debate about what a budget build should be in 2023—some readers suggested we drop the GPUs and make them work-machines only, while others said it was important that they were capable of playing games at 1080p. We decided to go with the latter option, and Sam, who curates the build each month,
