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THE BUILDS

BUDGET

IF THIS MONTH has taught us anything, it’s that the market is unstable. We’re seeing price fluctuations all over the place—not surprising given we’ve just got past the holiday rush, and this time is notorious for big businesses to struggle to push those sale goals, but still, these builds have been tricky to fine-tune.

Take our budget build as an example—the Ryzen chips are all over the place. You can theoretically pick up a Ryzen 5 7600X for less than the 7600 we have here. In fact, our little chip has gone up $12 compared to last month, but the X doesn’t come with a cooler. If you’ve got an

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