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                                                                                                                                      Buyer’s Guide







                                                                                            MOTHERBOARD             Strix X470-F Gaming
                                                                                                                    Asus £180
                         ADVANCED                                                                                   2700X with this matching X470
                                                                                                                    Get the most from the new AMD Ryzen
                                                                                                                    motherboard that’s packed with features.

                                                                                                                    Ryzen 7 3800X
                                    BUILD                                                   PROCESSOR               AMD £365
                                                                                                                    AMD continues to tear it up at the top-end of
                                                                                                                    the CPU market, and this 8-core, 16-thread
                                                                                                                    monster laughs at the word ‘bottleneck’.

                         Go above and beyond with a PC                                                              GeForce RTX 2080Ti Black Edition
                                                                                                                    EVGA £1,163
                         powerful enough to end worlds                                      GRAPHICS CARD           EVGA’s custom design is considerably
                                                                                                                    cheaper than Nvidia’s reference card, and
                                                                                                                    with great cooling.

                                                                                            COOLER                  Kraken X62
                                                                                                                    NZXT £100
                                                                                                                    The Kraken is the culmination of three of our
                                                                                                                    favourite things: an infinity mirror, a 280mm
                                                                                                                    radiator and slick braided cooling.

                                                                                            MEMORY                  Ripjaws V 32GB @3200
                                                                                                                    G.Skill £172
                                                                                                                    G.Skill is always a safe bet for lightning fast
                                                                                                                    RAM, and if you can do without the RGB frills
                                                                                                                    this 2x16GB set will treat you right.

                                                                                            POWER SUPPLY            HX750i 80 Plus Platinum
                                                                                                                    Corsair £119
                                                                                                                    Modular, custom cable kits, and a platinum
                                                                                                                    efficiency rating. What’s not to love about
                                                                                                                    this Corsair PSU? Nothing, that’s what.
                                                                                            SSD                     XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB
                                                                                                                    ADATA £114
                                                                                                                    A whole terabyte of M.2 storage with
                                                                                                                    blistering read/write speeds, just waiting to
                                                                                                                    be filled with Steam games you’ll never play.

                                                                                            HDD                     WD Blue 4TB
                                                                                                                    Western Digital £96
                                                                                                                    With a large boot SSD, there’s little need for
                                                                                                                    a large, cheap SSD. Instead we’ve opted for a
                                                                                                                    huge 4TB hard drive for all your bulk data.

                                                                                            CASE                    Enthoo Evolv ATX TG
                                                                                                                    Phanteks £170
                                                                                                                    The 5mm thick aluminium panels resonate
                                                                                                                    with svelte professionalism, and the interior
                                                                                                                    makes building inside this a dream.

                                                                                            DISPLAY                 AW3418DW
                                                                                                                    Alienware £849
                                                                                                                    34 inches of curved, beautifully presented
                                                                                                                    120Hz display with the added benefits of
                                                                                                                    G-Sync. One for aesthetes and athletes alike.

                                                                                            KEYBOARD                G915 Lightspeed
                                                                                                                    Logitech £210
                                                                                                                    Those low-profile keys feel like taking your
                                                                                                                    fingers figure-skating. It’s wireless too, so
                                         TOTAL                                                                      that’s the cable jam dragon slain.

                                                                                                                    G502 Lightspeed
                                       £3,779                                               MOUSE                   Logitech £91
                                                                                                                    The Lightspeed is the very latest edition of
                                                                                                                    Logi’s loveable G502, and while it might look
                                                                                                                    familiar nearly all internal parts are new.

                                                                                            HEADSET  NE W ENTRY  Y  Virtuoso RGB
                                                                                                                    Corsair £150
                                                                                                                    Featuring some of the fanciest RGB
                                                                                                                    implementation we’ve ever seen, Corsair’s
                                                                                                                    new luxury cans befit a top-end build nicely.




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