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Consoles

PLUSES

Amazing value
Slick gaming
Great game selection

NEGATIVES

No real upgrade option
No keyboard or mouse
Platform tie-ins

On one level, it makes zero sense to splash out on a gaming PC when today’s consoles offer unbeatable performance at a lower price. Take the Xbox Series X. It has an 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen CPU running at up to 3.8GHz, plus a custom RDNA 2 GPU with 52 CUs running at 1.825GHz for approximately 12 teraFLOPs of number-crunching power. The nearest AMD desktop

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