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THE BUILDS

BUDGET

IT FINALLY LOOKS like prices are stabilizing somewhat, certainly compared to last issue. Our blueprints this month have had some significant price decreases across the board, particularly for AMD processors. We’ve gone a bit off the cuff with these budgets builds, too, but more on that in a little bit.

AMD saw the Ryzen 5 7600 fall by $30, and the motherboard drop by another $6, along with a plethora of price increases across the SSD, RAM, PSU, and motherboard, leading to a $19 overall price increase, nullifying our decreasing CPU there.

Fortunately, we decided to go a bit renegade this month, retesting some of Intel’s latest GPUs, and have opted

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