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THE BUILDS

BUDGET

THE TERM ‘BUDGET’ USED IN THIS SENSE is to depict our lowest value build, yet all of our blueprint builds have a so-called budget. Thankfully for us, this is virtual, and we can play around with said so-called budget as much as we like. What happens next is a balanced selection of equivalent components to fit each build, and this lower-tier machine is the most money-conscious of the bunch. Despite this, it still offers modern parts, with good performance and plenty of room for upgrades down the line.

Starting with the Intel budget machine, we are making a change to our power supply (also found on the AMD

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