RedJaron :
This time it was decided that the Best Builds had to be sourced from Amazon. If your particular favored component is not on any build, it's likely Amazon doesn't carry it, or Amazon's price for it is higher than other comparable products.
Hmm, while that's understandable to an extent, it puts a sort of weird bias on the chosen builds. It's not really about the best parts for the money in the US market, just the amazon market, with some parts randomly blacklisted regardless of how appropriate they may be. I'm guessing that means that amazon itself must stock it, making amazon marketplace items disallowed?
This claim seems to be a bit damaged by this eccentricity:
Best PC Builds will provide a great resource to our community, showing off some of the best parts for their next build at any price. It's because of your votes and activity in the community that Tom's Hardware continues to be the Authority on Tech!
Is this article sponsored in some way by Amazon.com? Why not just use the price finding feature in pcpartpicker.com and really open it up to the way users shop for computer parts when they're trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of each dollar spent?