Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. These builds are made with you in mind. In almost all scenarios, the majority of the components between the systems are interchangeable, bar the CPU and motherboard combos. That means you could take our AMD budget build as your template of choice, and mix in the RX 7600 GPU. Alternatively, you could pick a component from our mid-range system and pop it in the budget one. As long as those mobo and CPU picks remain concrete, you should be golden, although bear in mind that the B650-S WiFi listed below doesn’t have PCIe 5.0 support, so your M.2s will run slower if you pick up a drive on the new standard. This month, we’ve seen a number of price hikes sweep across…

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