Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. We’re finally introducing new processors into our Blueprints mix. A lot has happened over the last month. We’ve had Intel dealing with massive stability issues, both at a physical and a software level, along with AMD launching new flagship chips riddled with latency and Windows bugs. But it finally feels like things are calming down, and everything’s going back to normal. The latest microcode updates are now available for both AMD and Intel, with AMD’s significantly reducing latency on its 9000 series, and Intel massively curtailing power draw, without sacrificing too much on the performance front. With that, we’ve decided to include new chips across a swathe of our builds. First up is the budget end of the spectrum. Both systems below…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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