PC Gamer Presents - PC Hardware Handbook - May 2018

BUILD IT SPECIAL

AMD VS.

Two very different systems and two very

different builds go head to head in this

workstation showdown

W

e’ve spent a while bigging up

how important Ryzen is in the

grand scheme of processor

development. Without it, Intel’s

price gouging would likely have

continued for the foreseeable future, with the red

prodigy being relegated to a footnote in computing

history. Ryzen, for better or worse, has changed

everything, giving Intel’s R&D labs the gusto to

push forward with core count and chip design, and

reintroducing choice into an otherwise stagnant

decision-making process.

No longer is system spec purely tied to how much

money you want to spend on an Intel chip, but which

CPU you believe is right for you. With most

multithreading professionals looking toward Ryzen for

its cheap and affordable multicore applicational use,

the question is, does it warrant the fanfare it’s received

AMD

BUILD IT!

Step-by-step guide

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PART Street PRICE

Case Corsair Carbide Air 740 £125

Motherboard MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon £190

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1800X £310

Memory 32GB (4x 8GB) Corsair Dominator

Platinum 2666 £465

GPU AMD Radeon Pro W X 7100 £625

PSU Corsair HX1200i Platinum £260

Storage 1 Samsung 960 Pro 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD £276

Storage 2 Western Digital - Black 2TB 7,200rpm HDD £102

Cooling Arctic Freezer 33 £33

OS Windows 10 Home 64-bit OEM £80

To t al £ 2 , 4 6 6

AMD INGREDIENTS

AMD vs. INTEL

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