PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

ROUND-UP

MOUSE

Mice are one of, if not the, most

subjective peripheral you’ll ever find

• we all hold mice in different ways.
  That said, the Lancehead is nothing if
  not spectacular. Its svelte design,
  combining a gunmetal matte finish,
  smooth curves, rubber grips and
  subtle RGB lighting, makes it a
  standout product.

£140 for a mouse? You’ve got to be kidding right? Well maybe not,

Razer’s newest mouse more than makes up for the hefty tag.

Combine that with an easy

plug-and-play setup and a 24-hour

battery life and we’re well on to a

winner. We hope Razer makes one of

those continually charging pads that

Logitech has for this bad boy.

SENSOR: 5G LASER SENSOR / MAX DPI: 16,000 /

CABLE LENGTH: 2M / LIGHTING: 16.8 MILLION

COLOURS / BUTTONS: 9 / WEIGHT: 111 GRAMS

GIGABYTE AX370 GAMING K7

http://www.gigabyte.com £200

This is, by far, Gigabyte’s best

offering when it comes to Ryzen

mobos, featuring a sleek satin black

design, classy RGB LED lighting, and

impressive memory support (We’ve

got it running 64GB of 3200 MT/s

right now), it’s a solid contender

for any high-end Ryzen

system. If only the BIOS

were a little stronger.

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EKWB A240G LIQUID

COOLING KIT

http://www.ekwb.com €240

Ever fancied your own custom

loop? EK’s latest aluminium liquid

cooling kits are super cheap, easy to

setup, and can cool your GPU and

CPU off a single dual radiator unit.

Performance is incredible, and after

testing these extensively we

can’t recommend them

enough to anyone

dabbling in liquid cooling.

ASUS ROG STRIX

X370-F GAMING

http://www.asus.com £120

Here’s another contender for your

Ryzen build. This has incredible

memory support, solid performance

and comes in at an affordable price.

So what’s the downside? Well, the

RGB strip isn’t the prettiest, backed

into the Rear I/O cover, and it

could do with a bit of extra

spice in overclocking

performance.

RAZER LANCEHEAD

http://www.razerzone.com £140

GPU

After all, if Vega has shown us

anything, it’s that it’s just not quite up

to GTX 1080 levels of performance.

The GTX 1080 Ti is still king of the hill.

PNY’s aftermarket XLR8 GPU

capitalises on that 1080 Ti GPU by

pushing up the boost clock by a

solid 70 MHz at stock, taking

advantage of a tri-cooler fan

What, no Vega? That rant is coming soon enough, but here we

decided to take a look at PNY’s latest GTX 1080 Ti rework instead.

design, and packing a hell of a wallop

to overclock potential. We managed

to push the clock up to 2025 MHz,

and the memory clock up to 12 Gbps,

pushing both minimum framerates

and averages up by 15%, making

this an ideal 4K card.

LITHOGRAPHY: 16NM FINFET / CORES: 3540 /

MEMORY: 11GB GDDR5X / MEMORY BUS: 352-BIT

92 %

PNY GEFORCE GTX

1080 TI XLR8 GAMING OC

http://www.pny.com £760

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