Follow our guide to building your own piece of computational perfection.
EVERY TIME we hit up the drawing board for a build like this, there’s a sense of apprehension. The degree of organization and luck required is Herculean, and even with all our experience, it never comes easy.
From planning the spec list, to requesting hardware, arranging photography, and more, it can take months for everything to come together, only for a new product to launch, or a shipping deadline to fall through, and scupper the entire thing.
Unlike our Dream Machines, these oneoff specials are not about absolute power, and pushing everything to the bleeding edge of technology, but about crafting a PC that’s perfect for the individual it’s designed for.
Let’s be realistic: You can probably get the same performance for half the cost, or twice the performance for less than double the price. But you rarely find someone who’s invested this much time and effort into a rig and regrets it. It’s a real labor of love.
This time around, we’ll be crafting a super-small liquid-cooled ITX Ryzen 2 rig, packing some incredible hardware into as small a chassis as possible. On top of that, we’ll be divulging all our tips and tricks to make the micro manageable, giving up our secrets on exactly which manufacturers and products we chose to make our system build as easy as can be, and hopefully inspiring you to create your own slice of silicon perfection, on any budget, in any chassis.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x $325
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NZXT C1500 Platinum
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World of Goo 2
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BenQ X300G 4K Short Throw Projector
Priced high, yet punchy
Hyte Thicc Q60
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WITH INTEL'S RAPTOR LAKE CPUs falling over, the company firing around 15,000 employees, and cancelling its 2024 innovation event, AMD must have been enjoying the view - until its new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs rolled out. So, is AMD's CPU a minor stumble or game-changing fumble?
Intel issues fix for Raptor Lake degradation
EARLIER THIS YEAR, I wrote about difficulties I was having with a Core 19-13900K processor (see MPC230 Tech Talk). Little did we realize that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. While most complaints have involved the unlocked Core i9 Raptor Lake CPUs, it appears the instability problems build up and potentially impact many Raptor Lake-13th and 14th Gen Core CPUs, with Intel identifying 22 different desktop parts.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
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