Custom PC - UK (2019-12)

P

C Specialist’sMagmaRTXSuperisn’tdesigned

tobeeye-catchingorpackedwithinnovative

design.Instead,thisrigletsitshardwaredothe

talking.It’soneoftwoPCsinthisissuethatuseNvidia’s

RTX 2070 SuperGPU.ThisnewchipreplacestheRTX

2070,andit hasmorestreamprocessors,moreRTcores

andbooststohigherclockspeeds.

PCSpecialisthasslotteda Zotac-madeversionintothis

machine.It hasRGBLEDsandtwoheftyfans,butit’snot

overclocked– theGPU’sboostspeedislockedatits

referencepaceof1770MHz.That’sstill

impressive,butit lagsa littlebehind

theKFA²modelinsidethecheaper

OverclockersTitanKatana(seep38),

whichbooststo1815MHz.

TheGPUispairedwitha newAMD

Ryzen7 3800Xprocessor,whichhas

eightmulti-threadedcoresandisbased

onthenewZen2 architecture.It’s

powerful,butit’sleftatitsstockbaseand

boostspeedsof3.9GHzand4.5GHz,

andPCSpecialisthasn’toverclockedit –

potentiallya wisedecisionif gamingis

yourtoppriority,asall-coreoverclocks

on8-coreRyzenCPUsoftencan’tgo

ashighasthestocksingle-coreboost

speed.TheCPUistoppedwitha Corsair

HydroH100xcooler,makingfora

strongersetupthantheKatana,which

hasa slowerRyzen7 3700XCPUand

asmaller air cooler.

The components attach to an Asus

TUF Gaming X570-Plus. This board gets

the basics right, including a 16x PCI-E 4

graphics slot and PCI-E 4 SSDs via its

two M.2 connectors. It also has six USB

3.2 ports and a Type-C connection, and

you get ALC S1200A audio as well. The

TUF sits at the affordable side of the

X570 scale, though, so there are few

RGB LEDs and no Nvidia SLI support.

Comparatively, the Overclockers

machine’s X470 board does handle

Nvidia’s SLI, and it has more USB ports,

but it doesn’t have PCI-E 4.

PCSPECIALIST MAGMA

RTXSUPER / £1,599 inc VAT

SUPPLIER pcspecialist.co.uk

GAMING PC

REVIEWS / PC SYSTEMS

S P E C

CPU

3.9GHz AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Motherboard

Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus

Memory

16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro

3000MHz DDR4

Graphics

Zotac GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB

Storage

512GB Intel 760p M.2 SSD, 2TB

Seagate Barracuda Pro hard disk

Case PC Specialist SR-819

Case

PC Specialist SR-819

Cooling

CPU: Corsair Hydro H100x

with 2 x 120mm fans; GPU: 2 x

90mm fans; front: 4 x 120mm

fans; rear: 1 x 120mm fan

PSU

Corsair TX550m 550W

Networking

Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi,

Gigabit Ethernet

Ports

Front: 2 x USB 3, 3 x USB 2, 2 x audio;

rear: 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2, 4 x USB 3.2

Gen 1, 1 x USB 3.2 Type-C, 1 x PS/2, 1 x

optical S/PDIF, 5 x audio

Operating system

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Warranty

One year parts and labour, followed by

two years labour only return to base.

One month collect and return, then

return to base

SHADOWOFTHETOMBRAIDER

1,920x1,080,HighestDetail,TAA

0 50 100 150 200

PCSpecialistMagmaRTXSuper 97fps 125fps

2,560x1,440,HighestDetail,TAA

0 50 100 150 200

PCSpecialistMagmaRTXSuper 67fps 84fps

50 100 150

150

200

50 100 200

TOTALWAR:WARHAMMERII

1,920x1,080,UltraDetail,DX11

0

PCSpecialistMagmaRTXSuper 81fps 99fps

2,560x1,440,UltraDetail,DX11

0

PCSpecialistMagmaRTXSuper 59fps 72fps

50 100 150 200

50 100 150 200

BATTLEFIELDV

1,920x1,080,Ultrasettings, DX12,HighDXR,DLSS

0

PC Specialist Magma RTX Super 68fps 81fps

2,560x1,440,Ultrasettings,DX12,HighDXR,DLSS

0

PC Specialist Magma RTX Super 52fps 60fps

Minimum Average

GIMPIMAGE

EDITING

62,631

HEAVYMULTI-

TASKING

253,861

HANDBRAKEH.264

VIDEO ENCODING

624,570

SYSTEM

SCORE

241,415

BENCHMARK RESULTS

LUXMARK

OPENCL

122,999