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$2,500 office PC, part by part

An Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB, and the 6 parts around them that fit it: $2,673 all in.

A desk that never stutters: browser, documents, calls and 1080p video, on two or three screens. Every part here was checked against every other for fit, and picked for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss. A price marked Amazon US is ScoutPrices' reading of the listing its button opens, dated; the rest are typical prices. Not a checkout total: no operating system, shipping, tax, screen, keyboard or mouse.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB are well matched at 1080p.

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PartScore for the jobPriceBuy
ProcessorIntel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

Highest office & everyday score the budget allows next to this card: 24 cores, boosts to 5.5 GHz.

2 swaps that still fit
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$386Amazon US, Oct 25
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MotherboardASUS ROG Strix Z890-A Gaming WiFi

Z890 board for the LGA1851 socket, DDR5, 5 M.2 slots, Wi-Fi.

2 swaps that still fit
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$287Amazon US, Oct 25
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MemoryG.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6400 CL32

32 GB DDR5 at 6400 MT/s CL32; 16 GB or more is the floor for office & everyday.

4 swaps that still fit
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$590Amazon US, Oct 25
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Graphics cardSapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB

16 GB of video memory, index 77 at 1080p; tuned for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

3 swaps that still fit
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$900Amazon US, Oct 25
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CPU coolerArctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

Rated 330 W for a chip that turbos to 250 W.

4 swaps that still fit
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$70Amazon US, Oct 25
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Power supplybe quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W

750 W, 80 Plus gold; this build draws about 750 W at full tilt, native 12V-2x6 cable.

4 swaps that still fit
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$80Amazon US, Oct 25
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CaseMontech Air 903 Max

4 fans in the box, 3 of them lit, 4 is the least 554 W of parts needs behind a mesh front. Takes EATX/ATX/MATX/ITX boards and cards up to 400 mm.

1 swap that still fit
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$80Amazon US, Oct 25
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StorageCrucial T705 1TB

1 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe, 13,600 MB/s reads, with cache.

4 swaps that still fit
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$280Amazon US, Oct 25
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Total8 parts, every price read on Amazon US$2,673

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