Custom PC - UK (2020-06)

6 7 8 9 10 (^8) TEST HARDWARE Before you install the hardware in the case, it’s a good idea to test it, so if any of your parts ...

(^11) REMOVETOPFAN TheLancoolII caseincludesthreefans,with oneintheroof.Weneedtoremovethelatter, sowecanfitourLiquidFreezerII ra ...

16 17 18 19 20 21 (^20) CONNECT OTHER POWER CABLES The other two power cables are a single SATA connector for case’s RGB lightin ...

FEATURE / CUSTOMISATION (^1) SET XMP PROFILE Once you’ve installed Windows, there are some general housekeeping jobs to make sur ...

Setting the CPU ratio to 42 will force all six CPU cores to run at 4.2GHz ManuallysettheCPUvoltageto1.325Vusingthe OverrideMode ...

FEATURE / ANALYSIS IS SLI STILL A VIABLE OPTION FOR GAMING PCS? EDWARD CHESTER AND BEN HARDWIDGE INVESTIGATE WHETHER IT’S STILL ...

HOW SLI WORKS Scalable Link Interface The very first iteration of SLI actually dates back to 1998 when 3dfx implanted a technolo ...

FEATURE / ANALYSIS frames, creating inefficiency. Meanwhile, for SFR, there’s ever more overhead in managing the splitting and r ...

the bandwidth. This move was mainly necessary due to the ever increasing take- up of 4K and higher resolutions. Even more recent ...

FEATURE/ ANALYSIS year-old card, and youcanpickupa second one very cheaply second-hand,soit would be good to at leasthavetheopti ...

ith dwindling game support and expensive hardware requirements, is it still worth setting up an SLI system? Tofindout,we enliste ...

FEATURE / ANALYSIS flickered a lot for the first few seconds when using the RTX 2080 Super SLI setup with ray tracing, affecting ...

Average 2080 Ti SLIscaling:40% Average 2080 SuperSLIscaling:42% RED2,560DEADx 1,440,customREDEMPTIONhighsettings, (^2) Vulkan,TA ...

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Formorecautiousfolks,theBluetoothfeature canbequicklydisabledandenabledusingthe newicon-basedmenusystem.Thispopsupon thehigher-r ...

CUSTOMISATION / HOBBY TECH HANDS ON FLIR ETS320 p p motional imageryforthedeviceshowcases,butthere area coupleofcatches.Thefirst ...

The second caveat is shared by all IR-based thermal cameras – the need for careful handling and pre-imaging treatment of the par ...

W hentheRaspberryPi4 single- boardcomputerlaunchedlastyea (seeIssue193),it hadmultipleRA capacities.Forthestandardtarget recomme ...

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