RTX 4070 SUPER build
Anti-RGB in 2024
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PEOPLE, REJOICE—the RTX Super cards have arrived, and with them comes some nicely tweaked internal specs, better performance across some models, and to top it all off, some consistency in their price tags.
What’s better than that, though? A super-sleek, stealthy, sexy, black founder’s edition graphics card from Nvidia, that’s what. There’s not a peep of RGB lighting on this little beauty. Nvidia really has come out of the gate swinging with its Super FE cards. You still get that same passthrough fan design throughout, the same 12VHPWR power cable location, and the same form factor as before (although bear in mind that this thing is far far far smaller than its RTX 4080 siblings), but most impressively, it’s that sleek mix of black metals and silver accents that really makes this thing stand out from the crowd.
That got us thinking—firstly, the obvious question is how does this card perform away from the top-tier, bottleneck-free test beds of the big brands, with something a little more down to earth on the CPU front? Secondly, can you make a kick-ass stealth build in 2024 that performs like a champ, cools like a king, and still looks the part?
That’s the aim of the game: build a budget, affordable, clean, kick-ass gaming PC, capable of hitting those 1440p and 4K resolutions with ease. Let’s dive in, shall we?
STEALTHY SELECTIONS
CPU $229
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series might have launched back in 2022, but that doesn’t stop these processors from offering good value for money and top-tier performance. The Ryzen 5 7600X does just that. Packing in six cores, 12 threads, and a base clock speed of 4.7 GHz, ramping up to 5.3 GHz under load, it’s potent enough to handle all of our gaming and rendering needs. Couple that with its 32MB of cache, and weird advantage (it’s running a single core complex, rather than two communicating via the Infinity Fabric), and it keeps pace with a number of Intel’s current-gen mid-range offerings.
It’s not as advanced as the X3D offerings AMD has at its disposal in the form of the 7800X3D and above, but honestly, although the 3D V-cache is pretty impressive in use, it’s dependent on games, and the closest priced sibling, the 7800X3D comes in at $150 higher than what we have here. www.amd.com
Motherboard $270
We had the option of two boards for this issue’s build: either this Aorus Elite AX from Gigabyte, or MSI’s MPG X670E Carbon WiFi. As any good MaximumPCsystem builder does, we (said builder and photographer) looked at both boards and went, “Nah, that one”, entirely based on appearance. Thus, here we are. Both boards are ca
