to the end of our building process. These smaller builds are less stressful than some of the mini-ITX ones—certainly less than the custom water-cooled systems. Watch this space though, as we want to hop on that train soon! Anyway, this budget-end system, like most, is fairly straightforward to put together. We luckily had no real issues, aside from the SSD, as we couldn’t use the uppermost SSD slot due to the pre-existing heatsink. It just wouldn’t fit with the NZXT heatsink covering it. This led to us using the second slot instead, which does have its drawbacks. We’d always recommend using the top slot. However, when we tested our SSD on our read/write speed benchmarks, it still performed very well. The
