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T
he build for this month is laser-focused on
performance. We barely looked at the price tag
during its construction, and didn’t pay much heed
to it when we did add it all up. We did, of course,
have a pretty good idea what the best value components
were, and what sort of ballpark we were going to end up
playing in, but on the whole, money wasn’t a factor. No, this
machine was all about one thing: performance.
Specifically, we wanted to build a machine that wouldn’t
be constrained by bottlenecks. From the off, we wanted to
give the Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ROG Strix Gaming OC
room to strut its stuff, and once you’ve got a serious bit of
silicon like that in your machine, lots of the othercomponents fall into place. The big selling point of this
graphics card, and the GPU that powers it, is that it makes
the dream of 4K gaming a reality. Yes, even at the highest
settings (although there’s an important caveat when it comes
to RTX titles: Even this card struggles to maintain 60fps at
ultimate settings). Which means that while we generally
don’t include screen recommendations on these pages, we’ll
make an exception, and suggest that this rig is ideally paired
with a quality 4K monitor.
So, over the next few pages, we show you how to build the
sort of machine that gaming dreams are made of. Let’s see
what spending five times the cost of our budget build
delivers in performance.gamer’s delight
Take the most powerful mainstream graphics card around,
add high-end hardware and a little RGB, and bake at 4K.
“We barely looked at the price tag during its construction,
and didn’t pay much heed to it when we did add it all up.”