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Buyer’s Guide

MOTHERBOARD Prime Z370 A II
Aus £137
MID-RANGE NE W featuring that – ahem – all important RGB
Great shielding, full of features, and
lighting, this is a fine Asus board.

Core i7-8700
BUILD PROCESSOR ENTRY Intel £315
It’s not Intel’s very latest chip generation,
but the older i7 is still lightning quick and
very unlikely to cause a bottleneck.

Our recommended build for playing GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan
Zotac £330
the latest games GRAPHICS CARD Serious power from the ‘just about
affordable’ end of Nvidia’s new GPU fleet,
and it’s ray tracing-ready too.

COOLER Hydro Series H55 Quiet Edition
Corsair £55
Tidy and quiet, the H55 will unlock our CPU’s
overclocking potential and look good
through your case window while it does so.

MEMORY Vengeance LPX 16GB
(2x8GB) @2666
Corsair £70
16GB is the minimum amount of RAM we’d
recommend for a system of this calibre.
POWER SUPPLY CX 650W
Corsair £69
It may not feature fancy modular design, but
Corsair’s reliable CX 650 is cheap enough to
accommodate for our other part picks.
SSD Evo 860 250GB
Samsung £45
Samsung’s Evo series has long been a
stalwart of nippy r/w speeds and reliability,
and this 250GB drive is very affordable.

HDD WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
Western Digital £38
SSDs are great, but they’re still far from
cheap. This 1TB HDD will hold as many
games as you will need.

CASE Eclipse P400S TG
Phanteks £70
The clean lines, intuitive build features and
fantastic price cements the Eclipse as our
mid-range case of choice.

DISPLAY Predator XB271H
Acer £360
G-Sync and up to 180Hz of overclocked
refresh rate – Acer’s 27-inch Predator is
quicker than a S1mple AWP peek.

KEYBOARD One
Ducky £100
A lesser known keyboard brand with a great
rep among mechanical switch nerds. Ducky
TOTAL NE W ENTRY delivers the goods with the One.

Model O Minus
£1,693 MOUSE Glorious £44
The lightest gaming mouse in production
and one of the most responsive and
comfortable out there. Look at those holes!

HEADSET HyperX Cloud
Kingston £60
Despite the budget price, we recommend
this headset. There’s simply nothing better
for the money.

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