AFTER A RECENT OVERHAUL, our budget Intel build sees only two changes to its lineup this issue. A change in price on the previous Seagate Constellation ES 7200 HDD meant that we exchanged it for the Seagate ST4000NM0024 on both builds. With the same 7200rpm and 4TB of capacity, it is a close match but it has a $20 hike over the price from the previous issue. There’s a $5 increase on the 500GB MSI Spatium M450 SSD, which now features in both PCs—it’s not an ideal start, but both are solid components.
The G.Skill Ripjaws V sticks marginally rise in price too, but
