PC blueprints

The APC team’s picks for a part-by-part perfect PC build to suit your budget.

We’ve taken a significant hit on the budget build this issue, but not without gain. We’ve managed to switch out that aged GTX 1050 Ti for our favorite GPU of the last two years, the GTX 1060 3GB — it’s a budget 1080p killing machine. Yes, perhaps the 3GB of VRAM isn’t as future-proof as we’d like, especially in the bigger AAA memory-hogging titles, but it’s difficult to argue with how much better value this thing is over its 1050 Ti sibling. For $100 more, you get 50 percent more CUDA cores than the Ti, plus significantly higher boost clocks and memory clocks. We’ve also plumped up some more cash to upgrade the Ryzen 3 1200 to the Ryzen 5 2600, a six-core 3.9GHz processor. This effectively gives us an…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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