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THE BUILDS

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a part-by-part guide to building a better pc

we look through the ingredients for our budget build and find certain elements that simply don’t need changing. ASRock’s B450M R4.0 motherboard remains one of the best-value AM4-socket motherboards on the market, and the classic 120GB Crucial BX500 is still… what? It’s not on sale this month?

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