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One way to get better value for money from a new desktop PC is to ignore the lure of the very latest processors and graphics cards, and opt for older components that are tried and tested. That’s what PCSpecialist has done with the Hydra R60S. It’s built around AMD’s six-core Ryzen 5 7500F processor, which is nearly two years old, but which continues to hold up well in benchmark tests. Likewise, the graphics card here is an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. It may be less powerful than the recently launched RTX 50 series, but it’s more than good enough for games and creative tasks, such as video editing. Just a few months ago it was up there with the best.