LIFE’S ALL ABOUT balance. Whether that means cracking on with some work during the day so that you can then enjoy some games in the evening, a good mix of both is needed to get the most out of life. Trust us, there’s nothing we like more than to relax and immerse ourselves in a fantasy world after a hard day’s graft.
With this build, we’ve focused on creating a great balance of components to provide you with a system equally capable of business and pleasure. Sure, a top-end system will also achieve this, but here in the real world, we thought it was important for this machine to land at around the mid-range price spot.
Our brain in the machine is Intel’s Core i7-13700K. This is one impressive chip, and although it can get overlooked often in favor of the i9 range of processors, this 16-core i7 CPU should provide our system with plenty of zippy processing capability. We’ve chosen to put this alongside a solid RTX 4070 card, specifically Zotac’s 12GB GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Trinity. At $600, you’re getting a lot of bang-for-buck performance with this card, which has been difficult to say about Nvidia’s 4000 series so far. Working with the CPU, it should make a great duo for video editing, 3D modeling, and graphic design work, and it should absolutely blitz through Microsoft Word! Then, when all of your hard tasks throughout the day have been ticked off, and you’re feeling on top of the world, this RTX 4070 card should be able to provide you with some smooth QHD gaming, and thanks to DLSS 3, even veer into the world of 4K (if you turn the presets down slightly).
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NZXT C1500 Platinum
Top-tier performance and efficiency
Nvidia DLSS vs AMD FSR
Which AI upscaling technique has the edge?
World of Goo 2
Goo-d enough for two
BenQ X300G 4K Short Throw Projector
Priced high, yet punchy
Hyte Thicc Q60
Almost more mobile phone than CPU cooler
Remove stalkerware from your PC
ACCORDING TO KASPERSKY’S LATEST ‘State of Stalkerware’ report, over 40 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they’d experienced stalking or suspected that they were being stalked.
BUILD AN IT SUPPORT HUB
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AMD's turn to drop the ball?
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
The new Zen 5 CPUs are here—time to benchmark!
