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Group test: Gaming <strong>PC</strong>s<br />
WIRED2FIRE PYRO RYZEN DG<br />
£1,675 inc VAT • wired2fire.co.uk<br />
Based on one of AMD’s latest Ryzen 7 1700X processors, the Pyro<br />
Ryzen DG delivers eight cores and a total of sixteen threads –<br />
double what you’ll get from a comparable Intel Core-i7 <strong>PC</strong>. It also<br />
comes with a powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card,<br />
Design<br />
The first thing you’ll notice about the Wired2Fire is its eye-catching<br />
black and orange NZXT H440 mid-tower system case. If you can’t<br />
get past the orange, there’s a variety of other equally eye-catching<br />
options available, included a sober all-black version for the less<br />
flamboyant among us.<br />
Key features of the NZXT H440 include a total absence of support<br />
for optical drives (remember those?), excellent cable management<br />
and a separate lower compartment for the power supply and hard<br />
drives, which keeps the main compartment extremely neat and tidy<br />
– perfect for viewing through the transparent side panel.<br />
Filling the case is an Asus ROG CrossHair VI Hero motherboard.<br />
There’s no cut-price B350 chipset to be seen here. Instead, we get<br />
one of Asus’s premium models with all the bells and whistles of<br />
Build<br />
Features<br />
Performance<br />
Value<br />
Overall<br />
AMD’s advanced X370 chipset. These include extra USB 3.1 ports,<br />
improved overclocking headroom and, in this case, Aura Sync<br />
RGB LED lighting control. Perhaps more importantly, it includes<br />
multi-GPU support for both AMD CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI<br />
technologies, providing an easy upgrade path by adding a second<br />
graphics card at a later date.<br />
But for now you’ll be getting get a single Nvidia GTX 1080<br />
which offers plenty of performance for high quality gaming at high<br />
resolutions and immersive VR experiences.<br />
Wired2Fire has selected AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X eight-core<br />
processor for this <strong>PC</strong>, which is found here running at up to 3.7GHz.<br />
A Cooler Master Liquid 240 cooler is fitted with it’s huge 240mm<br />
radiator fixed to the top of the system case.<br />
Three 120mm fans are concealed behind the blank front panel<br />
of the case, protected by a removable dust filter, as is the power<br />
supply fan below. A 140mm exhaust fan is installed at the rear<br />
keeping the <strong>PC</strong> cool without excessive noise.<br />
The Pyro Ryzen DG combines super-fast solid-state storage with<br />
the capacity of a 2TB traditional hard drive. A 250GB Samsung 960<br />
TEST CENTRE <strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong> www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews 67
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