Mid-range. A game-ready machine that can also handle demanding work.

“We did toy with the idea of swapping out that RTX 4060 Ti for an RTX 4070 Super, but sadly that would have added an extra $500 onto the overall cost of the build.”

If it aint broke, don’t fix it ought to be a APC motto. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what we did with this month’s mid-range builds.

Both builds saw significant pricing shuffles across the board. On the red side, the Ryzen 7 7700X dropped in price by $50. Other areas increased, offsetting those small victories. By far the biggest loss was in the cooling department, however, with the Pure Loop 2 240mm AIO getting a price increase, likely off the back of a promotional period ending, so we had to ditch it. We’ve gone for one of Corsair’s A115 Air Towers. It’s a fairly new release for the company, paired with two of its AF140 Elite airflow fans, and coming with six heat pipes as standard, pre-applied thermal paste, which is apparently “very good”, and is compatible with everything from LGA1150 and AM4 onwards.

Similarly, on our Intel build, we’ve opted to keep it super simple this time, with the only major change coming in the form of the memory swapping out, with TeamGroup’s T-Force Vulcan DDR5 @ 6000 getting pipped for a nice, sleek G.Skill unit. Not only did the TeamGroup kit get a price bump, this kit is actually $30 cheaper than last month’s. Also, can we all just appreciate how cheap 32GB of DDR5 @ 6000 is right now?

We did toy with the idea of swapping out that RTX 4060 Ti for an RTX 4070 Super, but sadly that would have added an extra $500 onto the overall cost of the build, and that’s just not a bridge we’re willing to cross right now, despite it being one of the best-value GPUs out there today. Regardless, our Intel build is $69 cheaper than last month without sacrificing any performance, and that’s a win in our book.