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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 10, 2023

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Especially if you live anywhere with a microcenter, your best bet is to pick up a CPU+RAM+Mobo on sale and slap it in your old case with a generously sized power supply, then find a GPU on sale. Buildapcsales on reddit still has some decent deals despite the bot activity. There are still some good sales on 12th gen intel CPUs and boards that everyone is trying to get rid of.

Get a 2TB NVME and you won't need any other storage except a backup HDD.

Interesting. If I go to a microcenter will they take my old PC and put new parts in? I thought they only built new PCs for ya.

Edit: Don't have a microcenter near me anyway. RIP.