LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: EASY
THE CONCEPT
IF YOU BUILT your desktop PC, it’s probably a hodgepodge of different manufacturer components all working in tandem. That’s the beauty of PC building—if you want to mix things up for price or performance reasons, common standards mean you can. But every manufacturer seems to have its own lighting standards and management app, and some use different styling or coloring that can mess with a uniform look. But what if you want to build a computer, while still recreating the feel of a pre-built system. What would that look like?
Thanks to the good people at MSI, we can find out this issue. During discussions about the company’s 2022 components, including its first SSD drive, the Spatium M480, and the Sekira 100R case, we asked them: could we get everything into our labs at the same time and make a build out of it all? The company obliged, sending all the components we needed apart from the CPU and RAM, the only items they don’t manufacture.
The resulting all-MSI build is at the cutting edge of current tech specs, thanks to its DDR5 and PCIe 4.0-compatible motherboard, and what’s more, it’s also pretty good value for money. Remember, adding the latest SSD and RAM to your build will increase its overall price, so if you already have some DDR4 RAM you want to use, go for the
