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STEAM CHIC
How this Metro Exodus PC was built
Welcome
Custom PC Issue 190
/ FROM THE EDITOR
Sweet dreams
ust look at that cover. In fact,don’t just look at it, run
your fingers over it and feel it. Isn’t that spot gloss
exquisite? More to the point,isn’t Antony Leather’s
dream PC build a beauty? If you fancy having a go at building your
own dream PC,then turn to p76 to find out what’s involved, from
inspiration and planning through to cutting and painting.
Other highlights in this issue include a dive into the technology
that makes LCD monitors tick (see p88),as well as a full
exploration of the £200-£300 graphics card market (see p42),
comparing old and new GPUs to find the sweet spots.
This issue also sees us introducing a few changes to
Custom PC.
Firstly,you’ll no doubt have noticed that,in addition to the fancy
cover finish,we’ve changed the paper size. However, we’ve been
very careful not to reduce the number of words on each page in
the process.
We’ve also cut down a fair bit of the‘filler’from the past design.
The Elite list (see p62) has been condensed down to six pages, for
example,and now features bundles of core components for
assembling a number of builds for different budgets. We’ve
removed a few other superfluous pages as well,and expanded the
number of pages for features,reviews and Labs tests.
The core focus of this design refresh hasn’t been so much
‘revamping’Custom
PC
as making it work better,while retaining
the core focus. We’ve paid attention to the feedback received in
our recent reader survey,as well as correspondence from our
readers,and made a few tweaks to bring back some of the classic
Custom PC
magic.
The Readers’drives section (see p111) is now focused on readers
of the mag again,rather than professional modders, for example –
send us photos of your rig if you’d like to be involved! You’ll notice
a few other tweaks too. Next month,we’ll also be bringing back
the Retro tech section due to popular demand We’re really pleased
with what we’ve done with this issue,and we hope you enjoy
reading it as much as we enjoyed making it.
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Rick Lane
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environmental management system which has been
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Custom PC
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The information in
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(Trading) Ltd cannot accept any responsibility for
loss, disruption or damage to your data or your
computer that may occur as a result of following or
attempting to follow advice given in the magazine.
If things do go wrong, take a break.
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Contents
Welcome to Issue 190
COVER
STORY
P76
Highlights
08
What Google Stadia
got wrong
Richard Swinburne is unimpressed
by the reveal of Google’s new game
streaming service.
10
Dubious authority
Our resident King takes on a prince
over his comments about Fortnite
and game addiction.
32
Corsair mini marvel
We take a look at the new overhauled
Corsair One, which packs a Core
i9-9900K and a GeForce RTX 2080
Ti into a miniature package.
68
Bring back gibs!
Rick Lane explores the reasons why
first-person shooters stopped
letting you chain-gun your
opponents into chum, and why ‘gibs’
should make a return.
70
42
Graphics cards
With several new GPUs and some
massive price drops, the £200-£300
graphics card market looks pretty
confusing right now. We test the main
players to find the sweet spots.
70
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
We take a look at From Software’s
latest sword-duelling action game.
52
FreeSync and
G-Sync monitors
We check out five FreeSync monitors
that have received G-Sync certification
from Nvidia, enabling you to get active
sync on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
74
Reality check
In this brand-new section, we bring
you the latest happenings in the
world of virtual reality.
94
Steam chic
Bill Owen from MNPCTech talks us
through his latest stunning PC mod,
which has a Metro Exodus theme.
76
Build your dream PC
Antony Leather takes you through
the whole process of constructing a
lavish PC system with your own
personal touch, from the initial
inspiration through to planning,
cutting and painting.
42
96
Hobby tech
Gareth Halfacree tries out Nvidia’s
Jetson AGX Xavier board and plays
though Hypnospace Outlaw.
86
How LCD monitors work
Don’t know your IPS from your VA?
Edward Chester dissects the inner
workings of modern LCD monitors.
106
Cut your own air vents
We show you how to modify your
case’s side panels so a vertically
mounted graphics card can breathe.
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