Aftershock PC Ultracore

$3,045 – TINYURL.COM/APC476APC

This is getting close to a perfect system build for those wanting great gaming performance, but not at any cost. Sure, the price is high, but you do get a lot of kit. The 3700X games well, and will give longevity to the system if you dabble in productivity work. The motherboard is overkill as a B450 board would achieve the same task here and be quite a lot cheaper; X570 does afford PCIe 4.0 compatibility for future upgrades, so there is that. A well-specced memory kit is always a nice pairing for Ryzen, and with a 360mm AIO cooling it, temperatures will be kept in check. Note: The picture of this system is with the custom water loop White Edition option chosen, which adds a further $1,299 to the price, but also an infinite amount of awe inducing hard-line tubing to this showy system improving GPU temps and lowering noise levels immensely.

KEY SPECS: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, COOLER: Aftershock Spectra Glacier 360, MOTHERBOARD: Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming 4, GRAPHICS: Asus Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Super 8GB GDDR6, MEMORY: 16GB Adata Spectrix D41 DDR4 3600MHz, STORAGE: 512GB M.2 NVME SSD, 2TB 7200RPM HDD, POWER SUPPLY: FSP / EVGA 650W, CASE: Lian Li O11 Dynamic.