What’s better than that, though? A super-sleek, stealthy, sexy, black founder’s edition graphics card from Nvidia, that’s what. There’s not a peep of RGB lighting on this little beauty. Nvidia really has come out of the gate swinging with its Super FE cards. You still get that same passthrough fan design throughout, the same 12VHPWR power cable location, and the same form factor as before (although bear in mind that this thing is far far far smaller than its RTX 4080 siblings), but most impressively, it’s that sleek mix of black metals and silver accents that really makes this thing stand out from the crowd.
That got us thinking—firstly, the obvious question is how does this card perform away from the top-tier, bottleneck-free test beds of the big brands, with something a little more down to earth on the CPU front? Secondly, can you make a kick-ass stealth build in 2024 that performs like a champ, cools like a king, and still looks the part?
That’s the aim of the game: build a budget, affordable, clean, kick-ass gaming PC, capable of hitting those 1440p and 4K resolutions with ease. Let’s dive in, shall we? –ZAK STOREY
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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
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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!