If there’s something extra enjoyable than constructing a brand new gaming PC, it’s constructing one for a buddy. That’s why the PCWorld crew invited Will Smith, prolific podcaster and recreation streamer and a former coworker of Gordon, on the PCWorld YouTube channel. Will wants a brand new gaming PC and Gordon and Adam are very happy to lend their experience to his construct. He’s able to put collectively a brand new super-powered desktop and ship his present gaming machine to secondary streaming duties.
Will’s a real energy consumer. Along with high-end recreation streaming, he does video and audio enhancing, picture retouches, the works. He’s additionally utilizing a 360Hz 1080p monitor for main gaming plus a secondary 4K show, so he wants frame-pushing energy plus sufficient video reminiscence to run numerous desktop on the facet. Briefly, his PC wants numerous every little thing: processor energy, GPU, reminiscence, quick storage, all operating as shortly and effectively as doable.
However there’s one other facet to Will’s enterprise and that’s recording podcasts. So when it’s not pushing pixels and rendering frames, the PC wants to remain moderately quiet. Oh and a case that appears cool with loads of RGB lighting could be good, too. A motherboard with built-in Wi-Fi would assist together with his rare journey schedule.
Will doesn’t have to improve his displays and he has already settled on a dear RTX 4090 graphics card, actually the most recent and biggest. For the CPU, Gordon recommends excessive clocks to hit these huge 300+ framerates. The highest-of-the-line AMD and Intel processors are apparent picks (Core i9-13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X), with a “darkish horse” being the extra reasonably priced Ryzen 7 5800X3D. However there’s a draw back with that extra economical possibility — it makes use of DDR4 reminiscence, which limits improve potential.
How would you construct this monster PC? Watch the video, take Will’s wants under consideration and await Adam and Gordon to current their builds. We’ll see who comes up with the higher machine in an upcoming video — be sure you subscribe to PCWorld’s YouTube channel for the stay construct video!
