Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i Custom PC UK

Custom PC has been a fan of mini-ITX ever since the old days, when the first mini motherboards based on weedy VIA EPIA CPUs were being snapped up by modders – there’s one built into a model car in our very first issue in 2003, and I also really like this month’s Readers’ drives scratch build (see p110), which is based on an even smaller motherboard design from ASRock. Having limitations forces you to innovate, and while there’s still plenty of innovation going on in the ATX PC space, it’s in the mini-ITX arena where you see all the really interesting ideas. Take a look at our mini-ITX motherboard Labs on p36 and you’ll see all sorts of new ideas, from stacked PCB arrangements to M.2 ports on the backs…

8 PACK LAUNCHES TOP-END MINI PC OCUK’s resident expert overclocker 8Pack has put his name to a new top-end small form factor PC, which features custom water-cooling gear and high-end components. As standard, the Meteoroid MK2 features a Ryzen 9 5900X and a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, along with an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Impact mini-DTX motherboard, 64GB of 3600MHz DDR4 memory and 5GB of solid state storage. Meanwhile, the water-cooling system comprises a pair of 360mm radiators and custom distribution plates, complete with 8Pack branding. The water-cooled graphics card has also been shifted so that it sits under a Plexiglas window in the top of the chassis, giving you a view of the coolant flowing through it. All the gear is housed in an acrylic chassis, which Overclockers says…

SUPPLIER backforce.gg The latest gaming chair to find its way into our lab is a little different from the norm. Rather than clearly being made by the exact same company but rebadged, as is the case with some prominent chair manufacturers, the Backforce uses a different manufacturer to most of these brands and has quite a few features that set it apart from their chairs. The overall aesthetic is familiar though. The seat is reminiscent of the racing/bucket seat styling seen on many gaming chairs, with an integrated headrest, high shoulder supports and a seat with raised sides. We tested the ‘OG’ all-black version, so the styling is muted, but other options add coloured highlights to the shoulder fins, headrest, slashes in the lower back padding and various other areas…

MOTHERBOARDS TEST PROCESSORS 〉Intel LGA1700 Intel Core i5-12600K 〉Intel LGA1700 mini-ITX Intel Core i7-12700K 〉AMD AM4 AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Common test hardware between our test rigs includes a WD Red SN750 SSD, plus a WD Black SN850 SSD to test the speed of M.2 ports, andanNvidiaGeForceRTX3070. Weuse16GB(2 x8GB) of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3466MHz DDR4 RAM, or 32GB (2 x 16GB) of Corsair 5200MHz Dominator Platinum DDR5 RAM. All CPUs are cooled by a Corsair Hydro-X water-cooling loop with two XR5 240mm radiators, an XD3 RGB reservoir and an XC7 RGB waterblock. We test with our RealBench suite and Far Cry 6 on Windows 11. We also test each board’s M.2 ports, and record the noise level and dynamic range of integrated audio using RightMark Audio Analyzer. PROCESSORS TEST…

SUPPLIER scan.co.uk AMD’s B550 chipset is two years old now, but its longevity means the likes of the ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax are still doing the rounds. As a board we first reviewed back in 2020, it hasn’t fallen in price much, still stubbornly staying around the £200 mark, maybe shedding a tenner or two over that time. Thankfully, there are now plenty of options when it comes to Socket AM4 with mini-ITX, but let’s see how the Phantom Gaming fares now. It gets off to a good start with its wide open CPU socket area, which means cooler compatibility is far better than some other boards on test – even the large pump sections and mounting brackets included with the ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II and NZXT Kraken coolers fitted…

SUPPLIER box.co.uk As its predecessor has now been recalled, the Gigabyte Z690I Aorus Ultra Plus is now the company’s flagship Z690 board for mini PCs. It gets off to a good start price-wise, as it costs nearly £100 less than the Asus ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WiFi, and comes in both DDR4 and DDR5 flavours. Gigabyte has gone for a double-stacked PCB and heatsink array for its M.2 SSDs, which is a far cry from the poor effort with its X570 sibling this month. The large heatsink on top makes direct contact with the M.2 SSD beneath, which benefits from an underside thermal pad, cooling both sides. There’s a second M.2 port beneath this arrangement, although only the top side is cooled with a heatsink. It’s worth noting that neither…

SUPPLIER amazon.co.uk PowerA has been creating fully licensed Xbox controllers for many years, offering colourful designs, extra buttons and generally more choice than the official controllers, while maintaining impressively low prices. As a case in point, this Spectra Infinity Xbox Series X controller includes three RGB lighting zones, multi-level trigger locks, dual rumble motors, headset input with microphone mute and volume control, and extra rear buttons, yet it costs just £35 inc VAT. Despite packing such a huge number of features into the package for such a low price, the Spectra Infinity doesn’t want for anything when it comes to build quality, at least in terms of heft. Despite being a wired-only controller, it weighs the same as a standard Xbox controller (with batteries) and it feels like it’s built…

FIFA is one of those games that’s so massive it exists inside its own orbit. Like Minecraft, Fortnite and League of Legends, you don’t hear it discussed much in general games discourse, because it’s always been there. It would be like having a conversation about the sky – it isn’t going anywhere, so what’s the point? Today we’re having a conversation about the sky, however, because it appears to have fallen in. After 30 years, publisher Electronic Arts has cut ties with FIFA, after the two organisations came to loggerheads in negotiations over the renewal of the licence. EA will continue to publish annual football games, but now under the (awkward) name of EA Sports FC. FIFA, meanwhile, intends to create its own line of football games. The split is…

With more great compact cases than ever before, along with a huge range of CPUs, graphics cards and small SFX PSUs from which to choose, there’s never been a better time to downsize your desktop and build yourself a little PC that can do it all. If your only expansion card is a single graphics card, and you use on-board audio or an external audio device, then you’re likely wasting a lot of desk space. It’s also true that you don’t need to skimp on gaming or content creation performance when you’re building a mini-ITX PC any more. There are plenty of powerful graphics cards that fit in small cases, and many of the latter cater for chunky triples-lot graphics cards too. Not only that, but the latest small SFX…

OUR MINI-ITX SHOPPING LIST CPU Intel Core i7-12700K £ 377 inc VAT ▶ cclonline.com Building a mini-ITX PC doesn’t have to be about compromise, but equally there’s no point opting for overly hot-running hardware that’s hard to cool in the confines of a small case. For this reason, we’ve opted for Intel’s Core i7-12700K Alder Lake CPU, which offers huge gaming and content creation performance, thanks to its eight performance-focused P-Cores and four power-efficient E-Cores, but isn’t quite as power-hungry and hot-running as the top-end Core i9-12900K, which is overkill for most people’s needs anyway. MOTHERBOARD Gigabyte B660I Aorus Pro DDR4 £200 inc VAT ▶ scan.co.uk Manual overclocking doesn’t benefit the high-end CPUs in Intel’s line-up, so there’s little point opting for an expensive motherboard with a Z690 chipset, particularly…

1,920 x 1,080 GAMING If you’re only looking to play games at 1,920 x 1,080, or you’re simply on a tight budget, the GPU market is still in a bit of a state. We sorely miss the days when you could buy a Radeon RX 570 for £150 and know it would do the job fine. That doesn’t mean there are no options though – you just need to be careful. Of course, this is made harder by the huge array of options available, and prices below the £400 mark are still a bit all over the place. Is it worth buying a second-hand GPU? Is an RTX 3050 better than an RTX 2060? Is the GTX 1660 still worth considering? There are so many questions, so let’s take them…

If you’re feeling inspired to get started on building a new mini system after this issue then you’ll want to enter this month’s competition, where we have an award-winning Fractal Design Torrent Nano RGB case up for grabs. The Torrent Nano RGB is built to maximise cooling potential straight out of the box. Its main standout features include an unobstructed base intake, an open front grille and a Fractal 180mm Prisma AL-18 RGB fan, which has been custom-made to achieve maximum air cooling while maintaining controlled noise levels. Other features include a removable top bezel, along with routing clips with cable ties, to make for easy installation and cable management. There’s also a top-mounted aerodynamic PSU shroud with integrated ARGB effects, and the case’s lights are all fully controllable by…

3D XPoint, later rebranded as Optane, the memory technology joint developed by Intel and Micron, created a lot of headlines when it was revealed back in 2015. Rightly so in my opinion, as the technology promised to solve many of the limitations of both DRAM and NAND, delivering much higher density and performance than NAND without the cost and volatility of DRAM. However, I think it’s fair to call time on the technology now and relegate it to the ‘failed idea’ chapter of tech history, as it has indeed failed to deliver on its promise and has more or less disappeared from the market. A large part of the reason for this is that NAND technology has moved on, with much higher density types coming to market, such as QLC,…

At Computex this year, Phison showed the first PCI-E 5 SSD controller in action on an upcoming Asus ROG X670E Hero motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7000-series CPU. Phison’s new E26 SSD controller recorded a whopping 12.5GB/sec sequential read speed, and a sequential write speed a smidge over 10GB/sec. When compared to the peak ~7GB/sec sequential speeds of the fastest PCI-E 4 SSDs, it’s clearly a huge upgrade. The SSD was connected directly to the CPU for maximum performance, but you won’t need to buy the most expensive X670E chipset to get a PCI-E 5 SSD socket. AMD has committed to having at least one PCI-E 5 M.2 socket on all its motherboard chipsets, whether it’s X670E, X670 or even the mainstream B650. These next-gen SSDs will also be bigger…

Thermaltake has just revealed a new mid-sized flavour of its glass-fronted Tower chassis design, fitting in between the massive Tower 900 and the mini-ITX Tower 100. Like the other Tower models, the Tower 500 shifts around the interior from the usual case design, so that the motherboard is directly facing the front of the case, with 4mm tempered glass windows on the front and sides providing an unobstructed view of the insides. The right-hand side panel can also be flipped 180 degrees, so you get mesh next to the area by the motherboard rather than glass, with room to mount a 360mm radiator. An optional 3.9in LCD panel kit can be fitted to the bottom front of the Tower 500, providing information such as real-time system data, or you can…

SUPPLIER overclockers.co.uk As an up-and-coming manufacturer that’s looking to muscle in with long-time players, Kolink has been getting progressively better at making cases. It’s a strong supporter of mini-ITX, so you might want to take a look at its mini cases if you liked this month’s feature and group test, but we’re focusing on ATX here with the Observatory Z Mesh ARGB. At £120 inc VAT, it’s up against a number of cases offering good airflow and RGB lighting costing noticeably less money, such as the Cooler Master MasterBox 500 at around £100, while Antec’s recent options such as the NZX700 cost even less money. Thankfully, Kolink has dialled up the Observatory Z Mesh ARGB’s credentials to help justify the extra outlay, including the addition of four PWM 1,500rpm 120mm…

SUPPLIER custompc.co.uk/CPHX CyberPower’s Hydro-X Infinity RTX has a massive price tag of £4,699, which is about as expensive as PCs get before you head into dream PC territory, and that’s no wonder when you consider the components. This machine pairs a beefy Intel Core i9-12900KS CPU with an overclocked Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU. The MSI-made graphics card runs its boost clock at 1920MHz rather than the conventional 1860MHz, and the GPU packs 10,752 stream processors and 24GB of GDDR6X memory. Meanwhile, Intel’s top-of-the-line Alder Lake chip has eight Hyper-Threaded P-Cores that theoretically peak at 5.4GHz, or 5.5GHz with Thermal Velocity Boost. The rest of the hardware is suitably muscular, with 32GB of dual-channel DDR5 memory running at 4800MHz and a 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade PCI-E 4 SSD with…

SUPPLIER amazon.co.uk The ARCTIC Breeze is a USB desk fan that features the same kind of 92mm fan you usually expect to see inside a PC. The construction is solid, there’s a heavy base and you get a 1.8m cable, so you can plug it in reasonably far away. Meanwhile, the fan itself sits atop a bendy metal neck, which allows you to aim it where you like. There’s no guard, though, so watch those fingers and stray cables. Power is controlled with a dial on the base, and at the lowest setting of 800rpm, the Breeze is very quiet, to the extent that the sound is barely audible over an air-cooled PC, sounding like just another instrument in the orchestra. At full power, it reaches 1,800rpm and is loud…

EXTREME ULTRA Some products are gloriously over the top. They don’t always offer amazing value, but they’re outstanding if you have money to spend. PREMIUM GRADE Premium Grade products are utterly desirable, offering a superb balance of performance and features without an over-the-top price. PROFESSIONAL These products might not be appropriate for a gaming rig, but they’ll do an ace job at workstation tasks. APPROVED Approved products do a great job for the money; they’re the canny purchase for a great PC setup. CUSTOM KIT For those gadgets and gizmos that really impress us, or that we can’t live without, there’s the Custom Kit award.…

SUPPLIER overclockers.co.uk Available since the launch of AMD’s Zen 2 CPUs, the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 is quite old in the grand scheme of the Socket AM4 timeline, and it’s painfully obvious that this motherboard hasn’t aged well either. Compared with the Asus ROG Strix X570-I Gaming, it’s lacking in a number of features. For a high-end board that costs £250, it only has one M.2 port, for example, and it’s only equipped with four USB ports too. Admittedly, the X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 is the only B550 or X570 mini-ITX motherboard on test to feature Thunderbolt support, so it’s likely ASRock assumed you’d be using fancy hubs and other Thunderbolt peripherals instead of USB ports. The early X570 boards that came on the market, including this one, also lacked features…

SUPPLIER scan.co.uk The Gigabyte B550I Aorus Pro AX costs around £30 less than it did at launch, but can it now offer the allure of the more expensive boards on test, or has Gigabyte cut too many features from the list? Let’s start with the M.2 heatsink, which is a vast improvement on the non-contact design of Gigabyte’s X570 board (see p42), but the large top heatsink doesn’t actually make contact with the SSD. Instead, there’s a smaller heatsink beneath it. Quite why Gigabyte separated the two is beyond us, as its Z690 board (see p47) has just has one big slab that offers excellent cooling via your case’s airflow. Still, the peak M.2 SSD temperature of 58°C was decent. The VRMs were also kept chilly. With an 8-phase power…

SUPPLIER scan.co.uk Our initial review of the Asus ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WiFi was glowing, as it sported a mighty feature set and an imposing PCB crammed with even more goodies than previous generations. However, it still won’t leave you with much change from £400, so can it still justify that price in the face of cheaper competition? Its triple-stacked array of M.2 ports and audio circuitry is built into a heatsink system that passively cools both of its PCI-E 4 M.2 ports, with our PCI-E 4 SSD maxing out at 54°C, and this idea has been copied to some extent by Gigabyte with its Z690I Aorus Ultra Plus. The Gigabyte board trumps the Asus in a couple areas too, with more fan headers and on-board RGB lighting, plus both…

There’s a huge variety of mini-ITX case layouts available, and they all serve different purposes. It’s important to realise that while you may find some styles of designs more attractive than others, the style of case you choose will have a significant impact on a case’s ability to house certain hardware, and can also affect cooling. TRADITIONAL LAYOUT With a graphics card facing the bottom of the case and connected directly to a vertically mounted motherboard, traditional layouts usually offer the best CPU air cooler clearance of any mini-ITX design. Popular cases here include the Cooler Master NR200P, which offers more than 150mm of CPU cooler clearance. The downside is that their radiator support can be limited unless, like the NR200P, it has a flexible layout with a vertical graphics…

The Framework Mainboard, a single-board computer originally designed to power the Framework modular laptop, has begun appearing in impressive community builds, including the pictured machine based on a circular display. Created by Penk Chen, designer of the CutiePi tablet, the Mainboard Terminal (github.com/penk/MainboardTerminal) features a 5in circular screen and a custom mechanical keyboard. ‘And yes,’ its creator notes, ‘it runs Spacewar!’ Richard Sutherland’s Framedeck (github.com/brickbots/framedeck), meanwhile, is a portable machine inspired by the TRS-80 Model 100 and housed in a transparent laser-cut case. The Framework Mainboard is available to buy from frame. work now, priced from £399 (inc VAT).…

/MEET THY MAKER Name Jean Roberto De lacovo Age 40 Occupation Hotel receptionist Location Italy Main uses for PC 3D modelling, gaming, tablet drawing, video/photo editing, websurfing Likes Hugs, arts, PCs, fitness, gaming, nature, Star Wars, Marvel, I could go on … I’m also a petrolhead, but I like sporty electric vehicles too Dislikes Bitter tastes, SUVs, racism, sexism CPC: What inspired you to build this PC? Jean: I wanted to see how far I could get with the design of a computer case. The standard that people picture in their mind when you talk about a PC is a boxy shape – apart from a few exceptions, most computer cases are based on a square shape. This case had to be unique and sophisticated, so after choosing the split sphere…

Someone recently asked me if I’d ever written a short guide to gaming myths, the sort of thing you could show to naysayers and fearmongers. I’ve tackled each of these topics at length in previous columns, whenever there has been new studies or evidence, but here are some handy quick talking points. First up is the most common myth: that video games cause violence. This one is dangerous because it distracts from looking for the actual causes of shootings. Gaming is the most popular hobby, so yes, you will probably get some overlap with the ‘commits violent crime’ population. This is also true of, say, people who read Harry Potter, but no one is claiming Voldemort causes violence. The teenage killer population is so tiny, and the gamer population so…

Mechanical keyboard switch maker Cherry is adding a new model to its line-up of low-profile key switches. The new Ultra Low Profile (ULP) Tactile is designed to offer a similar feel to the company’s full-sized MX Brown switches, but in a low-profile form that can be used in laptop keyboards and slim desktop designs. Unlike the already released ULP Click, the ULP Tactile doesn’t make a clicking sound as it actuates, but still gives you a tangible feeling of actuation as you press the key. The new ULP Tactile has a total travel of 1.8mm, with the switching point sitting at 0.8mm. Meanwhile, either RGB or single-colour LEDs are mounted directly under the switch, with Cherry saying it evenly illuminates the keycap, with options for programmable per-key lighting.…

SUPPLIER overclockers.co.uk While NZXT has been dipping its toes into the pools of peripherals and motherboards recently, it’s better known for its cases and its ATX line-up has just received a refresh recently with a trio of new models. The range caters for three different markets, with the two cheaper models offering high-airflow or closed-panel designs, while the top-end model offers all-glass panels, as well as software control. We’re looking at the high-airflow model this month, which is the £120 H7 Flow. It comes in either black or white, and it’s reasonably compact, measuring 50cm tall and 48cm deep, while its width of 23cm enables the case to offer 185mm of CPU cooler clearance. The graphics card clearance stands at 400mm, but while there’s no vertical GPU mount in the…

SUPPLIER game.com Austrian Audio is a relatively new entrant to the professional audio space, founded by former AKG engineers after that company closed its original Austrian facilities. The new brand has now entered the headset space with the introduction of the PB17 business headset and PG16 gaming headset. The two headsets are physically identical, other than the grey (pictured) or red highlights on each one, plus the PG16 comes with a licence for the company’s spatial audio software. Like Razer’s equivalent software, it uses THX Spatial Audio technology to provide virtual surround sound for your stereo headphones. As we’ve come to expect from THX Spatial Audio software, it works very well. The design is minimalist, with no RGB lighting or much in the way of extra features. The slim headband…

SUPPLIER custompc.co.uk/CCL3080 CCL’s Horizon 5 Intel RTX 3080 Gaming PC uses Nvidia’s veteran Ampere GPU, but there’s still plenty to like about the aging 10GB GeForce RTX 3080 – it packs an impressive 8,704 stream processors into its core. What’s more, in this machine, the MSI card overclocks the boost core from 1710MHz to 1740MHz. Alongside that GPU Intel’s mid-range Core i5-12600K Alder Lake CPU, featuring six Hyper-Threaded P-Cores with a top boost speed of 4.9GHz, along with four energy-efficient E-Cores. That’s a perfectly decent CPU for gaming, and CCL has also specced up 16GB of 3200MHz DDR4 memory and a 1TB SSD. The drive in our test system is a WD Blue SN750 with mid-range read and write speeds, but at retail, CCL has swapped in a Samsung 980…

SUPPLIER amazon.co.uk The evolution of the humble cable tie continues apace with a new incarnation by LiteTour. These cable ties have a flat base with a strip of double-sided tape to anchor them to any given surface; they then use a plastic loop with a ladder-like design to lock the cables in place onto the base. This style of loop offers an immediate and very helpful advantage over regular cable ties, which is that they can be adjusted back and forth, and even reopened once locked, without damaging them. Locking the loop with the wires in place can be fiddly compared with a regular cable tie, though, and you’ll want to tie up the cables first, then attach the base to the solid surface, as doing it the other way…

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SUPPLIER scan.co.uk Overclocking Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs doesn’t always yield decent gains, particularly at the high end, so if you plan on running one at stock speed, you don’t need to fork out for a Z690 motherboard. The Gigabyte B660I Aorus Pro DDR4 costs significantly less than its Z690 siblings, and it uses DDR4 memory, cutting down the price of building a total system compared with using DDR5. It’s also equipped with a decent array of features despite its price. There’s a large M.2 heatsink, which kept our PCI-E 4 SSD to a peak temperature of 60°C and well away from throttling. The heatsink is attached via a heatpipe to a large aluminium I/O heatsink shroud and a further heatsink at the top of the board too. The VRM temperature was…

Core component bundles The fundamental specifications we recommend for various types of PC. Just add your preferred case and power supply, and double-check there’s room in your case for your chosen components, especially the GPU cooler and graphics card. We’ve largely stopped reviewing power supplies, as the 80 Plus certification scheme has now effectively eliminated unstable PSUs. Instead, we’ve recommended the wattage and minimum 80 Plus certification you should consider for each component bundle. You can then choose whether you want a PSU with modular or captive cables. 8-core system with integrated graphics 8-core CPU, basic gaming Needs a micro-ATX or ATX case. We recommend a 450W 80 Plus Bronze power supply. See Issue 218, p76 for an example build guide. 1,920 x 1,080 gaming 6-core CPU, 1080p gaming Needs…

Hobbyist and embedded electronics specialist Seeed Studio (seeedstudio.com) has opened its first warehouse in the UK, offering dramatically improved delivery times and reduced costs compared with products shipped from its Chinese warehouses. ‘Once you finalise your orders,’ Seeed’s Serna Liang explains, ‘the purchases are sent from our UK warehouse and expected to be received in two to three working days with about $3-$8 [around £2.40-£6.40 ex VAT] shipping fees.’ Only a subset of the company’s products are available from the UK, but Seeed has indicated the range will grow over time.…

TOTAL PROJECT TIME / 48 HOURS Spray painting offers a fantastic way to customise your PC, thanks to the huge array of colours and effects available with today’s acrylic paints. All you need is a small space to work that’s well ventilated, along with some protective gear, and you can give your PC a unique colour and finish that’s colour-matched to your hardware and lighting. Spray painting can be tricky to get right, though, and there are plenty of pitfalls that can ruin your day. Thankfully, with a few tips, as well as the right preparation, you can achieve a great finish even with basic gear. In this guide, we’ll cover the process from start to finish, including dismantling and reassembling a case, cleaning and priming the surfaces, using effects…

Corsair Hydro X Series XD3 RGB Pump/Reservoir C The Corsair Hydro X Series XD3 RGB Pump/£151 Reservoir Combo features a high-performance DDC PWM pump, integrated RGB lighting and in-loop temperature sensor to drive even the most compact custom cooling systems. It has a high-performance Xylem DDC PWM pump controlled via PWM to deliver the perfect flow balance for your loop. There are also 16 individually addressable RGB LEDs, which light up the pump head to produce stunning, customisable lighting effects to match your build. Corsair Hydro X Series XC7 RGB CPU Water Block The Corsair Hydro X Series XC7 RGB CPU Water Block combines premium construction, vivid RGB lighting and extreme cooling performance to become the centrepiece of your water-cooling loop. It has a nickel-plated copper cold plate and more…