PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

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 1080 TI £750

It’s a lot of money for those 10

cores, but it’s hard to deny how

impressive this chip is. Capable of

reaching 4.4GHz, we overclocked this

monster to 4.2GHz, to keep it strong and stable, and more than

capable of kicking the crap out of our rendering benchmarks.

When it came to memory, we didn’t want to

absolutely demolish the competition, but we

did want to lean on X99’s hypothetical

memory maximum and oomph up

performance to the max. G.Skill’s 64GB (4x

16GB) kit has served us well in the past. Its

grand capacity and 3,200MT/s speed

really dents our benchmark suite. Did

it work? Best read on to find out.

We could have opted for a Titan Xp, or a Quadro, but

decided to use something a little different from the

AMD competition. The 1080 Ti packs a stunning

amount of performance in a card that costs just as

much as the Radeon alternative, but with enough

wallop to hammer games as much as any CAD task you

can throw at it.

INTEL MOTHERBOARD

ASUS X99-E-10G WS £500

Workstation heaven, thy name is X99-E-10G WS. All right, that might be a little more

long-winded than we’d like, but you get the point. 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports, dual 10GbE

ports, seven PCIe 3.0 slots capable of running seven workstation GPUs (in x16/x8/

x8/x8/x8/x8/x8), plus it overclocks like a champ, and has incredible memory

support, too.

INTEL BUILD

THIS IS TRULY A

STUNNING AMOUNT OF

PERFORMANCE IN A

CARD THAT COSTS

JUST AS MUCH AS THE

RADEON ALTERNATIVE

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