It's that time again, the mad man Steve @ HUB has tested 35 B650 motherboards using a 7950X!
TLDR: ASRock has seem to have done incredibly well this time round, kudos to them! The Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite (a mobo we have on the configurator) also comes very highly praised! Aaand the ASUS...
I've just noticed that we have some new coolers on the regular configurators 👀
Introducing the Deepcool AK400 and AK620! 🎉
From what I've seen the AK620 seems to be one of the tower coolers to beat right now so this is certainly exciting news! And the AK400 at £35 is a very appealing buy.
While everyone's been busy buying their AM5 CPU's, Intel has announced the 13th gen K SKU's so might be worth holding off on that buy button just for a while longer. Due to be released on the 20th of October, PCS already has them available for pre-order although as always I'd wait for reviews...
RTX 40 Series is here!
The exciting stuff first:
In terms of pricing for the UK for the 4080:
4090 will be £1679 MSRP
Now some slightly less interesting stuff about DLSS, RT Performance and Power Efficiency:
NZXT have bought out a new line of cases called the N7, N7 Flow and N7 Elite. The Flow seems quite good and the fans on the Elite are cool, although I'm sure it'l be a terrible thermal performer. It'll be interesting to see what pricing is like on the Flow and if it's competitve versus the 5000D...
It's giveaway time everyone!! PCS has teamed up with ASUS to bring us a £3,000 PC Giveaway! Click the image to go enter 👀 best of luck people! 🎉🎉
InWin 309 GAMING CASE 📦
Intel® Core™ i7 12-Core Processor i7-12700K (3.6GHz) 25MB Cache🧠
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z690-F GAMING WIFI ⚙️
32GB Corsair...
Just before the end of AM3, AMD have striked back against Intel with 6 new CPU's to join the 5800X3D- The 5700X, 5600, 5500, 4600G 4500 and 4100.
With lower priced boards, this could really bring AMD back into contention for value builds!
Hey all!
With the 2022 Season inching closer, I thought I'd make a fresh thread to look forward for what will hopefully be another super enticing season. Who are your favorite drivers? Which teams are you backing this season? Any bold predictions? 👀
One of our lovely Discord members has set...
It's giveaway time again!
PC Specialist have teamed up with Twitch Streamer Onscreen, Corsair, Gigabyte and Seagate to bring us one beastly PC giveaway! The title specs include:
Corsair iCUE 5000X Gaming Case
Intel® Core™ i7-12700K Processor
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz
12GB...
Earlier today, Corsair announced a cousin to the 5000D- the 5000T. It comes with a slightly different design, 3 LL120 RGB fans and some RGB inlets around the edge but at £350 it's stomach churningly expensive. It'd be interesting to see if PCS adds it so we can see what insane markup Corsair has...
As the title suggests, today is my 1 year anniversary of advising on the PCS Forum! I'd just like to say a moment to thank all the fantastic friends I've made along the way, the mods for keeping this place great and the admins for giving us an awesome place to hang out. I've really enjoyed my...
I'm aware we already have the Meshify 2 on the configurator but it's a bit of a long boi and incredibly expensive (at time of writing anyway). This review has just made me really want to see the 2 Compact up there- it's a super classy case, especially in this grey colour, it looks fantastic 👌...
It seems we have a new verrrryyyyy smalllll new case on the configurator 😂 White, RGB, reputable brand- I can see this one lasting all of 5 minutes! Although at £124 it's a pricey boy.
The embargo has just been lifted on the 3050 (it'll properly release tomorrow). I haven't watched all through these videos yet, but from what I have seen, it seems like a decent choice given the market.
Well, as the title says, the 6500XT is out and it's pretty embarassing. A GPU releasing in 2022 with 4GB of VRAM is insane. PCIe Gen 4 performance is worse than a 1650 Super and on average it spits out almost half the amount of frames of a 6600. Oh boy. I realise this is a card to attempt to...
PC Specialist is back with their first giveaway of 2022! This time they've teamed up with National Student Esports to bring you a giveaway for a PCS Elimina Pro laptop! This one is open to University students of the UK over the age of 18.
To those applicable, best of luck! I've already got my...
It's not often we see just how air flows through a case, but WePC have given us a cool insight into just what it looks like with some of our favourite cases. it's not the most scientific experiment, but still interesting to see!
They also have a number of videos on their TikTok which...
There's a new Case in town! The O11D EVO, looks like an O11D but you can mount the GPU just about anywhere! Jokes aside, it looks great and has more features than that, including a reversable chassis 👀
https://lian-li.com/product/o11-dynamic-evo/