OVER THE LAST FEW ISSUES, we’ve built a cornucopia of different styles of PC. Whether that’s high-end glamorous RGB monsters with enough displays and gifs to make your eyes melt, cooling-challenged ITX towers, or super stealth blacked-out builds featuring the best-value componentry around, all of them have pushed a particular theme in one way or another. They each present their own unique challenge—a way of testing hardware, sure, but equally a way of testing the journalist tasked with building them. That’s a big part of what we do, and a key ingredient of learning.
This time around, we decided to do something a little bit different; a little bit more refined. This, dear reader, is our attempt at building a relatively affordable, suave, and sophisticated 4K gaming machine—one that combines the very best in modern-day stylish lighting with some very intriguing and unique hardware to deliver an all-round perfect experience, regardless of whether you’re in-game, or rendering 4K content in Da Vinci Resolve.
At its heart, of course, the key selling point for us is seeing how that 4070 Ti Super behaves under different circumstances. At the core of this build lies the 7800X3D CPU from AMD, a fantastic and incredibly popular processor option—complete with Team Red’s impressive 3D V-Cache tech—to really leverage frame-rates in-game. Combine that with a beautiful new case from NZXT, and some stunning Light Wings fans from be quiet!, and let’s find out just how this kitty purrs, shall we?
–ZAK STOREY