AGAIN, NOT A HUGE BATCH

of changes in our Turbo build. Annoyingly, despite the fact we suspect Nvidia and AIBs have excessive levels of GTX 1080 Ti stock, the prices for the cards are sky-high compared to the RTX 2080 right now. Given the two cards are the same, it seems Nvidia is attempting to push the market into its ray-traced field, likely to bolster the attractiveness of its ray-tracing gameworks features to developers, and in turn get more sales of the RTX 2080 Ti, its true money-maker. All speculation, but it seems likely.

Outside of our GPU woes, everything else remains relatively the same. You could save some serious cash by dropping out the 2950X for a 2920X. You’d lose out on four cores, but in game, at least, you’d still be packing some seriously impressive frame rates, and 12 cores aren’t to be sniffed at—that’s still 24 threads.

We’re finally starting to see some serious price drops in the memory department. Good quality kits are falling by $20–$30 at a time, and it’s looking good for the foreseeable future, with China threatening class action lawsuits against price fixing. Aside from that, we’ve kept it all fairly standard. We have heard tell of our favorite CPU cooler having some faulty review units from Newegg, so we’d keep an eye on that (perhaps opt for a Corsair or NZXT variant instead, if you are worried), but otherwise we’re happy with where this build’s at. For more of our component recommendations, visit www.maximumpc.com/best-of-the-best