THE ULTIMATE 4K GAMING RIG

IT’S THAT ALMOST MYTHICAL THING—as gentle as a whisper, and just as fragile. We move one step closer each and every year, and yet it seemingly moves one step further away every time we approach it.

4K gaming is something we’ve written about for many years at Maximum PC, and something that has never come to fruition—at least, not in the way we want it to. W hy is that? Well, just as much as technology advances, processors get more efficient, and graphics cards render an ever greater number of frames, so to do graphics improve, code gets denser, and more modern effects come into play to imitate real life, requiring more processing power.

If the question was “Are the games of 2016 playable at 4K today at 60fps?” we could happily say “Yeah, with ease”—and yet that’s not the aim. We are human, and because of that, we constantly strive for more. It’s in our very nature and is the driving force in our society.

This hunt for gaming excellence leads to better technologies that