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HARDWARE

Buyer’s Guide

MOTHERBOARD B360M-HDV
ASRock £70
BUDGET as ‘no frills’, but it’ll still get the juice out of
ASRock’s B360M board definitely qualifies
your CPU without bottlenecks.

Core i3-9100f
BUILD PROCESSOR Intel £80
An incredibly nippy quad-core CPU for the
price, Intel’s 9th gen budget chip skips
integrated graphics for affordability.

Enjoy 1080p gaming without GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING
EVGA £327
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the budget gamer’s best friend.
COOLER Hyper 212 Evo
CoolerMaster £28
Even a budget build can benefit from a good
CPU cooler, letting you enjoy a quieter,
cooler system.
MEMORY Vengeance LPX 16GB
Corsair £70
16GB of RAM gives you plenty of breathing
room when running multiple programs, and
Corsair’s selling this kit cheap.

POWER SUPPLY CX-M Series CX550M
Corsair £68
A UK price spike in our previous EVGA
500W pick opens the door for this quiet
Corsair option.
SSD MX500 250GB
Crucial £45
Crucial’s SSD range is fantastic value and
offers good performance, too. A 250GB drive
can hold your OS and essential programs.

HDD WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
Western Digital £38
One terabyte of old-fashioned hard storage
is the perfect home for all of your media,
backups and storage-hungry games.

CASE Neos
Bitfenix £40
The Neos provides decent airflow, good
support for 3.5-inch hard drives, and a fairly
painless build experience.

DISPLAY Optix MAG271C
MSI £250
MSI packs huge value into this. You will have
to start blaming your k:d on your broadband
instead of your refresh rate though.

KEYBOARD BlackWidow Lite
Razer £80
Silent and deadly as its namesake, this
BlackWidow board from Razer is a joy to type
TOTAL on. No number pad though, be warned.

Rival 110
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£1,161 MOUSE SteelSeries £25
A great sensor, simple design and
impressively low price make this a great
entry-level gaming mouse.

HEADSET HS35
Corsair £40
Deceptively luxurious for the price, Corsair’s
budget cans offer comfort and powerful
low-end. Also colours. Very bright colours.

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