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A sampling of PC systems available this month

COMPUTER ALLIANCE ALLIANCE GLACIER PRICE $2,349 WEB tinyurl.com/APC534ca This snowy system keeps things chilly thanks to a relaxed Ryzen 7 5700X CPU, which can get hot but only sips 100W in peak operation. That can easily be dissipated thanks to the full-front facia intake fans and the decent HSF. Paired to an RTX 4070 the CPU is about as well matched as you can hope for, anything more powerful and it may struggle to keep it fed. 32GB of RAM at AM4’s happy speed of 3600MHz is good to see, as is the roomy 2TB of SSD space. There’s not much to dislike here, a well-priced, well-balanced system. Just know that a GPU upgrade later should be accompanied by a CPU upgrade to an X3D part to not bottleneck performance.…

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