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Maximum PC Builds Archive — Usage

Finding a build

Start at the build index. Rows are grouped by year and issue, with the build tier — Budget, Mid-Range, or Turbo — and links to all three representations.

For the years the magazine split them, AMD and Intel variants appear as separate rows.

Which representation to use

PCPartPicker

Best for buying. The lists live under the archive's PCPartPicker account, so the site prices them live against retailers and flags compatibility problems.

Currency is whatever you set on PCPartPicker. It shows only the current price — the printed price is not carried across.

Markdown, in this repository

Best for reading offline or comparing. Each file is a plain table, so it diffs, greps, and survives without a network.

Prices are in Canadian dollars, and each part carries both the printed price and the current one.

The website

Best for browsing. Generated from the same data and published from the gh-pages branch.

Prices are in US dollars, with printed and current side by side.

Reading a Markdown build

Each row is a component with its printed price and its current price. The difference between those two columns is the archive's reason for existing — some parts have collapsed in price, others have not moved, and a few cost more now than when the issue went out.

Downloading

main       the Markdown builds and the scraper
gh-pages   the built website

Both are downloadable as ZIPs from the GitHub interface.

A caution on prices

Current prices come from a daily scrape and are only as good as its last successful run. Printed prices are fixed and historical. See Scraper and FAQ.