Turbo

This one goes to 11.

We’ve been able to make a saving thanks to a good deal on the Nzxt C850, a fully modular 80+ Gold PSU, among other drops.

In our AMD Turbo build, we’ve saved $30 thanks to a tidy price drop on the Asus Prime X570-Pro. The launch of RTX 30-series cards from Nvidia has triggered some weirdness in 20-series pricing, and stock availability is still rather limited, but we’ve managed to find Zotac’s three-fan 2080 Super for a reasonable price.

Both coolers have held steady, but our memory has not, and our memory kits have actually dropped a little in price, trimming a few more dollars off our totals. We’re using the larger 1TB version of the Aorus Gen4 SSD in the AMD build.

These delightful savings have unfortunately been somewhat undercut in the Intel build. The Core i9-10900K is no longer benefiting from its tasty postlaunch sale; at the time of writing, you can expect to pay upwards of $850 for one. But hey, this is a Turbo build, so the part stays put. We have managed to make some savings elsewhere, with a new motherboard (the MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi) and a new GPU (Gigabyte’s Windforce model of the 2080 Super).

Last issue, our Intel Turbo system was considerably cheaper than its AMD rival. This month, the same holds true. Which one would you prefer to own?

“The launch of RTX 30-series cards from Nvidia has triggered some weirdness in 20-series pricing, and stock availability is still rather limited.”