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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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