PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

STACKED UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Logitech G403 Roccat Leadr Asus ROG Spatha Logitech G903 Razer Atheris Razer Mamba Razer Lancehead 125 ...

Turn your PC into a high-quality multimedia centre Speakers GROUP TEST SPEAKERS ...

W ith gaming headsets and high-end headphones all the rage, PC speakers are the forgotten child of the enthusiast PC market. Not ...

Clearly you’ll need deep pockets to even consider them, but if you’re after a PC speaker set that delivers truly exceptional aud ...

3 All these years later there’s only been one revision of the T20, in the shape of the T20 Series II, and the set’s impact hasn’ ...

LOGITECH Z533 http://www.logitech.com £80 LOGITECH Z150 http://www.logitech.com £17 (^56) The latter three are all situated on t ...

STACKED UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Creative T20 PRICE (£) Power (watts RMS) FREQUENCY RESPONSE (Hz) Minimum Maxi ...

KIT REVIEWS ALL THE HARDWARE YOU NEED TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR PC 135 147 153 Contents 143 145 133 151 ...

BUYERS GUIDE Tu rn to p a ge 1 5 6 Don’t want to put your own rig together? We round up the best prebuilt PCs on the market toda ...

DIGITAL STORM BOLT X http://www.digitalstorm.com From £1282 (approx) depending on chipset What makes a small form factor system? ...

Reviews HARDWARE ...

INTEL CORE i3-8100 http://www.intel.com £105 With Intel’s first foray into its Coffee Lake architecture, we saw one major differ ...

ROUND-UP HEADSET This headset is damn good. Whether it’s the build quality, the fit and feel of the cups, the sound stage or the ...

MSI FORCE GC30 GAMING CONTROLLER http://www.msi.com £37 This is the first time that we’ve placed a controller in the main spot. ...

ROUND-UP MOBO The Z370-G is a fantastic Micro-ATX offering, packing a small form factor, and plenty of connectivity into its tin ...

ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1070 TI A8G http://www.asus.com £500 This is the world’s most confusing graphics card. A seemingly nonsensica ...

ROUND-UP MONITOR We tend to advocate higher refresh rate screens for the enjoyment factor. However, once you get above 165Hz it ...

INTEL CORE I7-8700K http://www.intel.com £400 Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Coffee Lake, Intel’s mainstream retaliatory blow ...

ROUND-UP MONITOR It’s not cheap, not by any measure. The MX34VQ is the perfect combination of super wide aspect ratio, high refr ...

INTEL CORE I9-7980XE http://www.intel.com £1,800 The highest echelon of AMD’s Ryzen architecture, the Threadripper 1950X, is a b ...