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We’ve done some fairly extensive changes to our Turbo builds, and managed to keep the price tight in the process. In fact, both builds have fallen in price, by $691 for the AMD build, and $231 for Intel.

Let’s start with the joint products first. TeamGroup’s T-Force Cardea Z44Q became hard to find. The good news is that PNY’s 4TB CS2241 PCIe 4.0 drive is equally available in good quantity out there, and for $29 cheaper than the TeamGroup from last month. On top of that, our be quiet! Straight Power 12 shot up in price, pushing us to swap out to a SilverStone HELA 1200R Platinum 1200W instead. It’s still 80+ Platinum, still modular, still 1,200W, but all for an impeccable $279 instead ($130 cheaper than last month). SilverStone has been in the game for a fair ol time now, and although they might sound like a fairly middling brand, their PSUs are well renowned.

With that out of the way, let’s talk AMD. The only major change came in the form of the motherboard. We dropped the Asus Prime X670E-Pro WiFi in favour of Gigabyte’s Aorus Pro X variant instead, but that’s about it. Otherwise, both GPUs saw price drops as well, and with our SSD, case, and PSU savings, we ended up with a $691 cheaper build than last month.

On the Intel front, the price drops continued, although not as dramatically as AMD.

Nonetheless, a comfortable CPU price drop definitely helped. On top of that, thanks to the launch of the RTX 4080 Super coming in at $200 less than the stock 4080, we’ve dropped our old Ventus 3X OC card in favour of the new Super, while grabbing ourselves an OC variant here, too. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but we’ve gained a touch more performance and saved $231.

There’s not a huge amount we’d change on either build. If anything, that additional cash might be better served invested in the case and the cooling solutions, but otherwise, we’re getting close to the pinnacle of what you can pick up off the shelf in today’s age, barring an RTX 4090, of course.