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Saying Yes to the RTX 4070, and No to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D

This is a double update: one CPU, one GPU.

Let us begin with the section that contains (on balance) good news for PC builders!

The Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU Update

A couple of weeks ago, AMD released the R9 7950X3D CPU, which they are marketing as “the ultimate processor for gaming.” That’s quite a big claim, and if true it would definitely belong in our PC building chart!

Does it live up to that title? Well, just about, yeah. Let me explain:

The CPU Shuffle of February 2023

January brought a lot of CPU options to our attention from AMD and Intel, and as a result we’ve made a whole host of changes to the processor column of our main chart!

An Update for the Destitute

Since its launch many years ago, the Athlon 200GE was the refuge of the tired, the hungry, the poor and oppressed. For a tiny fee of about $55, you would get a decent-ish CPU that had a decent-ish iGPU within. All you had to do next was find a very cheap motherboard to house it, and you had yourself a very affordable computer. This made it our go-to recommendation for the absolute cheapest build in our main chart.

But recently, the price of the 200GE has been going up, and it is getting harder to find…

A Holiday High-end GPU update

In the midst of a festive season, we bring tidings of good graphical cheer to some of the highest tiers of our main PC building chart!

New GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia are now making an appearance, and causing some accompanying changes for older graphics cards.

Intel 13th-gen CPUs: Revenge of the Raptor!

What a fantastic month it has been, with so much new hardware available! But what is this? It is Intel, who decided to add even more spice with their new Raptor Lake launch! Woohoo!

Potential CPU buyers had already had their options improved when AMD launched Zen 4 earlier this month, and from Intel’s timing, price, and performance, it is clear that this is a response. How good are the new choices from Intel?

Let us take a look.

The RTX 4090 (Behemoth) Update

Behold, friends-with-big-wallets: the biggest, heaviest, most expensive, most power-consuming, and *drumroll* best-performing card ever made!

Let us take a closer look.

The Intel A750 and A770 Alchemist Graphics Cards Update

Rumours of an Intel entry into the graphics card market have been circulating for years, and many people had eagerly anticipated the arrival of a third player to the discrete GPU space.

Well, it happened. A few days ago, Intel released the Arc A750 and Arc A770 cards. Let us take a look at the good and the bad of this launch.

The ‘Ryzen Ascends’ CPU Update

We are going to skip the big long AMD history lesson for this one, but if you have hours to spare and want to read about that:

- We watched the birth of weak-sauce Zen 1.
- We saw how it grew much stronger in Zen 2.
- Then it overtook Intel with the excellent Zen 3.
- But last year Intel came back with a vengeance.

Today, we take a look at where AMD lands with its Zen 4 launch.

The ‘Fair Winds Have Come’ Pre-Update

(Sailboat photo by Robbie Sproule)

Can you feel it? The change for PC builders, not very subtle, happening even as I type these words?

The clouds have lifted. The sun is shining. The news is good. It is as follows:

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