PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

HANDBOOK PRESENTS 84 PAGES OF HARDWARE REVIEWS INSIDE! STARTS HERE PC GAMING FROM OVERCLOCKING TO CASE MODDING: THE ADVICE YOU N ...

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HANDBOOK PRESENTS It’s been a fun old year for PC enthusiasts, and by ‘fun’ we mean “Thanks, crypto miners, for driving up the p ...

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HANDBOOK PRESENTS Future PLC Richmond House, 33 Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6EZ Editorial Editor April Madden Design ...

Contents 68 BUDGET CASES If you’re building a new PC you’re going to need something to put it in. House your hardware in our pic ...

98 ALL-IN-ONE COOLERS Serve your CPU performance ice-cold with these frosty cooling solutions 104 134 110 KEYBOARDS We cherr y ( ...

BUILD 10 HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO BUILD YOUR OWN PC FROM SCRATCH Contents 38 60 28 ...

10 HOW TO BUILD A PC Your essential guide to putting a rig together 18 TODAY’S BEST UPGRADES Bring your system bang up to date w ...

FEATURE How to build a PC ...

Building a PC is a huge part of the joy of PC gaming. No-one starts off as an expert PC builder, though, and here we’ll take you ...

PREPARE THE CHASSIS Let’s build. First, take off both side panels on the case. You’ll need access to both sides for inserting ha ...

SEAT THE PROCESSOR Good job. If you’re reading this and not cursing or crying, you’ve successfully got a motherboard in a PC cas ...

PUT IN THE POWER SUPPLY Now, for something much simpler... A PC isn’t powered by magic, so a power supply (PSU) is necessary. Ou ...

INSTALL THE SSD Of course, every PC needs non-volatile memory for storage, but nowadays, there’s an allowance for plenty of vari ...

PANEL CONNECTORS In order to get the lights and switches on the front of your chassis to work, these tiny cables need to plug in ...

AND THEN, A PC! Be sure to take a step back and drink it all in. You’ve (probably) successfully expressed yourself via expensive ...

Budget build Pick the parts you want to build a new, well-rounded PC for a good price. Mid-range build Run every new game at 108 ...

TODAY’S BEST UPGRADES Bring your system bang up to date with some choice HARDWARE PICKS U pgrading is fundamental to the PC. It’ ...

INTEL HAS FINALLY THROWN OFF THE SHACKLES OF THOSE FOUR- CORE LIMITATIONS PROCESSORS At last, we’ve seen it come to fruition. In ...