TRACING RAYS

IT’S TIME FOR THE STAR of the show, the Asus Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OC, to get eased into position. After removing the two blanking plates, this is straightforward, although care is needed because this is a heavy card, and you don’t want to drop it on to your motherboard. If you get a PCIe extension cable, this case does support vertical mounting of your graphics card, which would look great against the side panel’s smoked glass, but these things aren’t cheap, and we’ve already dropped a big chunk of cash on this machine. Still, it’s an option. At this point, we installed the power supply, and discreetly threaded the various cables through to where they were needed. The top eight-pin EPS connector can often be tricky, but we had cable to spare here.