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of new components to our Intel budget build last issue, including a new CPU and GPU, we kept the changes to a minimum this time around. The only changes of note here are a new B660 motherboard from ASRock, swapped in to trim the overall price without sacrificing performance, and a new SSD from PNY which should exactly match the MSI Spatium M450 in the AMD system in terms of performance. The AMD build gets a new motherboard, snapping up Gigabyte’s B550 Aorus Elite for $125. It’s $5 more expensive than the previous mobo, but the Aorus Elite is the superior board so it’s