PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

A lthough existing Z170 motherboards will support Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs, the Z270 chipset brings a couple of new features that ...

Z27O Motherboards GROUP TEST Not that the result is quite to our liking. It’s smart and premium-looking but we prefer the darker ...

Z27O Motherboards Z27O MOTHERBOARDS 34 That’s not to say it looks bad. The black and white design has its charm and most of the ...

ASUS STRIX Z270G GAMING http://www.asus.com £180 MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON http://www.msi.com £160 5 6 You get plastic IO shrou ...

MSI Z270 GAMING M5 http://www.msi.com £185 STACKED UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 Gigabyte Z270X-Gaming 7 Asus Maximus I ...

GRAPHICS CARDS No need to raid your savings for these Graphics cards GROUP TEST ...

T he sweet spot for the graphics card market right now is somewhere around the £400-£500 mark, with both the Nvidia GTX 1070 and ...

Graphics cards GROUP TEST 2 While plenty of other GTX 1050 Ti cards use just one fan and have short PCBs, the Expedition offers ...

Group test GRAPHICS CARDS 34 Unlike most of the other cards in this test, having two fans isn’t an upgrade over a single-fan ver ...

5 6 70 % 70 % Graphics cards GROUP TEST 5 It comfortably came out on top in our benchmarks with average framerates of 107fps at ...

7 65 % STACKED UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GP107 GP106 Polaris 20 GP107 Polaris 20 Polaris 11 GP106 GPU ESSENTIALS 640 1152 2304 768 2048 1 ...

Give your level loads a lift with a new SSD SOLID STATE DRIVES Solid State Drives GROUP TEST ...

Q&A Do I need a really fast SSD? As a gamer you won’t see much benefit – levels will only load fractions of seconds faster. ...

Solid State Drives GROUP TEST This makes it decidedly bulkier and less convenient than most other SSD options, but top-line perf ...

In Association With 34 Several factors enable such high speeds. First is that these drives use the M.2 interface and NVMe protoc ...

SANDISK EXTREME PRO 480GB http://www.sandisk.com £190 CRUCIAL MX300 525GB http://www.crucial.com £110 5 6 The MX300 is available ...

KINGSTON SSDNOW UV400 480GB STACKED UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Samsung 960 Evo Samsung 850 Evo Crucial MX300 SanDisk Extreme Pro Kingston ...

C PUs are a hot topic this year. Starting with the launch of Ryzen and followed by Intel’s Socket 2066 chips and AMD’s monster T ...

Q&A What is an all-in-one liquid cooler? These coolers offer the basic properties of liquid cooling but in a self-contained ...

All-in-one CPU coolers GROUP TEST This means you still get the nickel-plated base to the water block, a solid metal block itself ...