PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

LOCTOTE FLAKSACK SPORT It’s difficult to provide physical protection for individual small items, as you can easily do with a lap ...

Protect your tech FEATURE bearing in mind that it’ll only provide a minimal degree of protection. DIY SOLUTIONS If you’re a deve ...

Feature Protect your tech restricted to theft prevention. These tiny SBCs are often targeted at Internet of Things applications, ...

Protect your tech FEATURE BACKPACK BEACON This project is a simple way to make your own tracking device that you can tuck away i ...

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BUILD IT SPECIAL AMD VS. Two very different systems and two very different builds go head to head in this workstation showdown W ...

INTEL so far in the workstation environment? We know what the situation is with our synthetic benchmarks, and for gaming, but wh ...

AMD MOTHERBOARD MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON £190 AMD GPU AMD RADEON PRO WX 7100 £625 AMD MEMORY 32GB (4 X 8 GB) CORSAIR DOMINATOR ...

INTEL CPU INTEL CORE I7- 6950X £1,630 INTEL MEMORY 64GB (4 X 16 GB) G.SKILL TRIDENT Z DDR4 £900 INTEL GPU NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 108 ...

AMD BUILD AMD COOLING ARCTIC FREEZER 33 £33 There is a growing number of options for AM4 coolers, but most focus on all-in-one s ...

IN AN IDEAL WORLD, WE WOULD HAVE POPULATED BOTH SYSTEMS WITH A WD BLACK 6TB HDD FOR ONBOARD STORAGE INTEL BUILD Unfortunately, W ...

Above: SPECviewperf is a harsh test of a system’s CAD capabilities AMD BUILD FEATURE AMD vs. INTEL CHOOSING BENCHMARKS FORGET YO ...

INTEL BUILD Feature AMD vs.INTEL On to the nitty-gritty. You can build all the fancy workstations you want, but if you don’t hav ...

Premiere Pro in all of its processor- eating glory AMD BUILD FEATURE AMD vs. INTEL The video editing community is divided on whi ...

The world’s most frustrating 2-12 hour benchmark It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise when we say that assessing how these ma ...

THE CONCEPT Ryzen to the challenge FEATURE BUILD IT: Ryzen to the challenge BUILD IT LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS W e’re always com ...

Obviously, the starting point for this build was the Ryzen 7 1800X, the high end of AMD’s current Ryzen lineup. We did briefly t ...

FEATURE BUILD IT: Ryzen to the challenge Sliding the motherboard into place was every bit as easy as installing the power supply ...

ZERO- POINT Cinebench R15 Multi-Thread 987 1,710 (73%) Cinebench R15 Single-Thread 196 158 (-19%) CrystalDisk QD32 Sequential Re ...

THE CONCEPT The Intel rig of damnation FEATURE BUILD IT: The Intel rig of damnation BUILD IT LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS T his is ...