BUDGET
HOW HIGH CAN
you go before a budget rig stops being budget? That’s a pertinent question with how GPU pricing is tumbling. On the AMD side, the Radeon RX 6800 vanilla GPU is now very cheap.
As we go to press, you can get one on Newegg for just $399. That’s for a brand new card—not a refurb, not open box. What a deal. It’s awfully tempting to slot it into the AMD budget rig and fiddle around with some other items to keep the price under $1,000. To be honest, that wouldn’t be hard, given that with no changes, the total would come to $1,005.