FINALLY, CPU STOCKS HAVE reached a stable level. AMD’s Ryzen 3 3100 has remained in the budget AMD build, and for good reason. Firstly, $200 is a reasonable price tag for this chip. Secondly, it’s great for what we want. The 3100 8-thread CPU gives us a decent experience with the additionally boosted speeds we had over the Ryzen 3 1200 from two issues ago. For now, it can sit comfortably in this build. The motherboard remains the same. The addition of the Ryzen 3 3100 brings a few perks, one of which is PCIe 4.0. We upgraded last time to the MSI B550M Pro motherboard to speed up data transferring in our budget AMD build. Paired with the XPG Gammix S50 Lite we added last time, this will ensure ultra snappy speeds. This Gen4 M.2 SSD is one of the fastest we can find and it’s good value too, although 500GB can be chewed up pretty quickly. You can pick up MSI’s Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT, but it’s almost double the price of the Radeon RX 6700 XT that is still currently unavailable, so we can’t recommend this alternative route.

Gigabyte’s DS3H V2 availability is unchanged so the ASRock B460M Steel Legend stays for our budget Intel build motherboard. We save a bit on the CPU, but nothing spectacular. The Core i3- 10100 has fallen by $7, but we will take anything at this rate.