Cooking up a Gamer's Delight
LENGTH OF TIME: 3-4 HOURS
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM
THE CONCEPT
THE BUILD FOR THIS month’s cover feature is laser-focused on value for money, and seeing what you can do on an incredibly tight budget. This build is the counterpoint to that. We barely looked at the price tag during its construction, and didn’t pay much heed to it when we did add it all up. We did, of course, have a pretty good idea what the best value components were, and what sort of ballpark we were going to end up playing in, but on the whole, money wasn’t a factor. No, this machine was all about one thing: performance.
Specifically, we wanted to build a machine that wouldn’t be constrained by bottlenecks. From the off, we wanted to give the Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ROG Strix Gaming OC room to strut its stuff, and once you’ve got a serious bit of silicon like that in your machine, lots of the other components fall into place. The big selling point of this graphics card, and the GPU that powers it, is that it makes the dream of 4K gaming a reality. Yes, even at the highest
