Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. Ah, 2024, a time of change. Here we have it folks, a new generation of CPUs. The cycle continues, and AMD has finally debuted its latest Ryzen 9000 generation chips to the masses. Only one problem: they’re a bit underwhelming on the price to performance front, and they’re currently beleaguered with some pretty significant Windows bugs, too, causing performance to be sub-optimal. This may change, but for the time being, given how great value the 7000 series is, we’re sticking with the last gen. This does mean that prices for everything else are ping-ponging around faster than a bat out of hell, which makes it particularly difficult to price these builds up. Nonetheless, we’ve come up with a list of six fine…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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