PC gaming is affordable again
Do you know when we last did a build feature for a sub-£1,000 PC with a discrete GPU? It was in Issue 204, 20 months ago. Zen 3 was still months away, as were Ampere and RDNA2. Our last budget gaming PC build had a quad-core Ryzen 3 CPU and a Radeon RX 5600 XT – we haven’t done a sub-£1,000 gaming build for nearly two years. But that changes this month, as the graphics card market has slowly started correcting. It’s not party time yet. GPU prices are still a long way from normal, and the £400+ eBay prices for the GeForce RTX 3050 (see p16) show that there’s still plenty of silliness around. However, there has been a definite drop. Since last issue, the cheapest price for the GeForce RTX…