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Costing $1,400 more than this month’s Scorptec system, this system gets a slightly faster graphics card in the RX 5700 XT, giving it better than RTX 2070 levels of performance.

The other major boost to specifications is the R9 3900X CPU, giving it double the core and thread count, making this system quite the work horse for those with high demands. Matched with faster memory that is double the capacity, any highly threaded task will have ample compute to throw at it. Strangely, for a “creative” focused build the storage capacities are honestly a little underwhelming with just a 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD. Those using this amount of compute power will typically need large amounts of storage to match.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Cooler: OEM, Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 UNIFY, Graphics: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT MECH OC 8GB, Memory: XPG Spectrix D60G 32GB RGB DDR4 3200MHz, Storage: Samsung 500GB NVMe SSD, Samsung 1TB 2.5” SSD, Power Supply: Unknown, Case: MSI MPG SEKIRA 500G