CUSTOMPC/ ISSUE 201
08 Get ready for Wi-Fi 7
Richard Swinburne looks at the latest
Wi-Fi tech developments, from
30Gbps speeds to seamless meshes.
10 Cancelled
With gaming shows being
cancelled in the wake of COVID-19,
Tracy King questions the future
of big gaming showcases.
16 64 cores
We take a look at AMD’s
ultimate desktop CPU, the
Threadripper 3990X.
24 £299 mini-ITX case
That seems like a lot of money,
but NZXT’s H1 also comes with a
PSU and liquid-cooling system.
We find out if it’s worth the cash.
42 Affordable gaming keyboards
Want to get yourself a decent gaming
keyboard, but don’t want to spend
hundreds of pounds? We test eight
models that cost under £70.
52 27in gaming monitors
We test some of the fresh new
crop of high-quality 27in IPS
gaming monitors that have recently
appeared on the market.
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100 Why I still love
mini-ITX
Antony Leather has just moved
to a new house with lots more
space than his old one, but he’s still
planning to stick to mini PCs.102 Spray-paint your
motherboard
We show you how to make your
motherboard match the rest of
your PC’s colour scheme, covering
how to paint the PCB, as well
as details such as heatsinks.107 Retro tech: Athlon 64
K.G. Orphanides looks back
to the release of AMD’s killer
processor lineup at the end of
2003, which introduced 64-bit
instructions to the x86 desktop PC
for the first time, and gave Intel’s
NetBurst chips a good kicking.76 Build a £993 gaming PC
We’re really pleased with the spec
of this month’s build feature. For
under £1,000, you can construct a
system with a GeForce RTX 2060
Super, a 3rd-gen Ryzen CPU with
liquid cooling, 16GB of RGB memory
and an NVMe SSD. Find out what
you need and how it’s done.86 Nvidia SLI test
Is it still worth linking two GPUs
together to get better game
performance? We test a load of
old and new games in SLI to see
how they scale, and also take
you through how SLI works.94 Hobby tech
Gareth Halfacree looks at
the Mooltipass BLE and
tries some thermal imaging
with the FLIR ETS320.34