in the lab
Velocity Micro Raptor Z55
Scary performance from this overclocked beast
This is the best performance PC right now for most buyers.
WITH INTEL’S Alder Lake CPUs now firmly entrenched in the PC hardware market, we’ve been keen to see how far custom PC manufacturers can push them. Enter Velocity Micro, which has taken the already fearsome Intel Core i9 12900K, overclocked the eight Performance cores to 5.1GHz, and taken the eight Efficient cores to 4GHz. That maxes out the performance of this already impressive chip while pairing it with other bleedingedge components, including a PCIe 4.0 SSD, DDR5 RAM, and a 3080Ti GPU.