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LAST ISSUE, we paid more attention to the overall costs of the budget builds and tried to level the playing field. With increases across the board for PC components, our costs had risen to the point where they weren’t exactly budget builds anymore. So we made a few adjustments to bring prices down while still offering well-rounded PCs. With changes to the PSU, GPU, SSD, and HDD for the AMD machine, we managed to bring the price down, but a few extra swaps this time around have lowered it even further.

First, we swapped out our ASRock X570 Steel Legend ATX AM4 motherboard and

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