Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. If this month has taught us anything, it’s that the market is unstable. We’re seeing price fluctuations all over the place – not surprising given we’ve just got past the holiday rush, and this time is notorious for big businesses to struggle to push those sale goals, but still, these builds have been tricky to fine-tune. Take our budget build as an example – the Ryzen chips are all over the place. You can theoretically pick up a Ryzen 5 7600X for less than the 7600. But the X doesn’t come with a cooler. If you’ve got an AM4/AM5 cooler spare, it’s worth the jump, but otherwise, you’ll end up spending more. The new 8000 series G chips might look tempting, particularly…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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