Components
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MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC: A fantastic ATX motherboard It looks the part, has 802.11ac Wi-Fi and is loaded with a fantastic BIOS – this is the Intel ATX board to beat£170 -
Intel Whiskey Lake: Serious power for thin-and-light laptops Intel updates its processor line for lightweight laptops – but what’s new? - recommended
Blackmagic eGPU review: Cool, quiet and powerful Quiet, cool and powerful, The Blackmagic eGPU provides serious graphics oomph for your MacBook Pro£599 - best buy
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X review: Powerful, affordable Outstanding performance, low temperatures and an excellent price: the newest top-end Ryzen is a superlative octa-core CPU£282 -
AMD Ryzen 2: AMD's new processors rival Intel AMD announces its second-generation Ryzen CPUs, but what does the Ryzen 2 bring to the motherboard? -
Intel Coffee Lake review: Can Intel hit back at AMD? Intel's latest chips are faster and have more cores than ever before, but can they match AMD's Ryzen processors for value? - recommended
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X: Rivals a £1,600 Intel processor Almost flawless, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X punches well above its weight and gives Intel some serious competition£500 - recommended
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 OC review: The GTX 1080 alternative This great big graphics card isn’t cheap, but it brings smooth 4K gaming, a cracking cooler design and amazing power efficiency£434 - recommended
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB review: Sub-£200 perfection It might struggle with the most demanding games, but this card offers incredible performance and efficiency for the money£189 - recommended
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB review: The sub-£300 champion With killer performance and efficiency, plus plenty of memory headroom, this is the king of sub-£300 graphics cards£245 -
Intel Core i7-6950X review - the 10-core Broadwell-E is real Monstrously expensive and outstandingly powerful, this Broadwell-E CPU is as exclusive as they come£1285 - recommended
XFX Radeon R9 380 Double Dissipation 4GB review A new mid-range bargain for AMD, but the R9 380's ageing architecture isn’t the leap forward fans were hoping for£177 - recommended
Intel Core i5-6600K (Skylake) review Modest CPU and GPU gains over the previous generation, but Skylake is as future-proof as it gets right now£228