TechLife Australia – September 2019

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[ BEST BUDGET ]

Logitech G402 Hyperion Fury

$49 | http://www.logitech.com

A hybrid-sensor gaming mouse with

optical, gyro and accelerometer

tracking, this one doesn’t skip a beat.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX

1050 3GB

$244 | http://www.nvidia.com

Better frame rates mean we’re willing

to spend a bit more money for the

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB card.

[ BEST VALUE ]

Cooler Master MasterMouse

MM520

$59 | coolermaster.com

A claw-grip number for right handers.

Clunky switches aside it’s very

ergonmic and feels premium.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

$620 | http://www.nvidia.com

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti gives

us very little gripe about.

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SteelSeries Sensei RAW

$80 | http://www.steelseries.com

Ditching unneeded features, this is a

lean, mean headshotting machine

that’s good for lefties and righties.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

$1,150 | http://www.nvidia.com

Pick one up for a bargain now that the

2080 is out and enjoy enough power to

run almost anything on high detail.

[ BEST WIRELESS]

Logitech G703

$99 | http://www.logitech.com

Cheaper than its G903sibling,

this mouse uses the samewireless

tech for excellent performance.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 2080

Dual OC 8GB

$1479 | http://www.asus.com/au

Stependously expensive,butpacked

with truly groundbreakingfeatures,

especially its real timeray-tracing.

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Asrock H370M Pro4

$139 | http://www.asrock.com

Brings Intel’s more-advanced H370

feature set to buyers who thought they

could only afford a lesser B360 model.

[ BEST VALUE ]

ASUS RoG Strix Z370-G

Gaming

$289 | http://www.asus.com/au

Micro ATX done right, with enough

space for two M.2 PCIe SSDs and

support for 64GB of DDR4.

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Gigabyte Aorus X470

Gaming Ultra

$279 | http://www.gigabyte.com.au

This second-gen AM4 board goes great

with Ryzen 2000 CPUs, packing heaps

of features for a nice price.

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Asus Maximus XIFormula

$729 | http://www.asus.com/au

A really refined boardthat’stailor

made for watercoolers andmodders.

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Canon Pixma MG2960

$36 | http://www.canon.com.au

An inkjet that can print, scan and copy

in colour, send faxes, has Wi-Fi and

can AirPrint and Google Cloud Print.

[ BEST VALUE ]

HP Envy Photo 7120

$131 | http://www.hp.com/au

This inkjet with a tri-colour tank

produces excellent photos, connecting

wirelessly with your phone and laptop.

[ BEST PHOTO PRINTER ]

Epson Expression Premium

XP-15000

$499 | http://www.epson.com.au

Incomparable photo prints at up to A3

size. A remarkable inkjet printer.

[ BEST SMALL-BUSINESSLASER]

HP Colour LaserJetPro

M477fnw

$500 | http://www.hp.com/au

Built-in wireless, duplexprintand

scan, cloud and mobile print,andgreat

print quality at a fairprice.

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Intel Pentium G4560

$79 | http://www.intel.com

This 7th-gen (aka Kaby Lake) CPU

is great for those looking to build

a quality budget rig.

[ BEST VALUE ]

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

$269 | http://www.amd.com

Retailers have dropped pricing on the

Ryzen 5 2600, which means you can pick

up six cores and twelve threads cheaply.

[ BEST PREMIUM ]

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

$469 | http://www.amd.com

Thissecond-gen,8-coreRyzenchip is

a greatall-rounderformultimedia

work,gamingandmore.

[ BEST EXTREME ]

AMD Ryzen Threadripper

2950X

$1,415 | http://www.amd.com

This well-balanced processor, AMD’s

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X does

not disappoint.

PC PROCESSORS

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Crucial MX300 250GB

$105 | http://www.crucial.com

The affordable MX300 drives are great

value and fast-enough to max out the

SATA interface. Can’t go wrong here.

[ BEST VALUE ]

Samsung 860 EVO 500GB

$185 | http://www.samsung.com/au

500GB is the ideal spot for cost-

per-gig. This updated drive from

Samsung is a great choice.

CrucialMX5001TB

$350 | http://www.crucial.com

A five-year warranty is the icing

on a super-fast SATA SSD cake

that offers great bang for buck.

[ BEST EXTREME ]

Adata XPG SX8200 (480GB,

NVMe)

$189 | http://www.adata.com

For its price point, the 480GB Adata XPG

SX8200 is impressively fast during

normal applications and game loading.

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