VIDEO ASPIRATIONS

It’s been a crazy month, with a lot of ups and downs, reshuffles at the mag, and settling into new positions. I’ve been itching to get into the video scene for a while, but finding the time to do so has been challenging. My job is intense, and it’s rare for me to find time outside of my regular duties. That said, I’m moving to a new position, and now have a little leeway (basically, I’m using my Saturdays) to hopefully produce video content for that old book of faces, and maybe even YouTube. Let’s be frank: MaximumPC has been around for a while now, and the fact we don’t have some form of regular digital content online outside of PCGamer’s hardware site is a little disheartening.

This is something I plan to rectify, with help from my executive editor, Alan Dexter. Thing is, we’re going to need a fairly beefy machine. The less time spent rendering, the better.

As we received two Threadripper parts with our review sample, and as we have a habit of holding on to our more affordable, mid-range parts for future features, it’d be a shame not to use that 16-core CPU. So, farewell Core i7-5820K workstation, and hello AMD Threadripper. More than doubling the thread count and increasing memory to 128GB of DDR4, with a few other choice components from last year’s Dream Machine, we should have the perfect proving ground for those video antics of ours.