Custom PC – May 2020
English | 117 pages | pdf | 47.17 MBAs you’ve no doubt already deduced from the glossy decorative parts of the front cover, this is the 200th issue of Custom PC,and while we don’t want to entirely disappear up our own posteriors in our rose-tinted specs,we’ve marked the occasion with a special feature on p 84. While I onlyworked on Issue 1 as a freelancer, and didn’t join the full-time team until a few months later, I remember the build-up to the launch well,and it was an exciting time in PC journalism.
Looking back on Issue 1 shows just how far we’ve come since those early days,when the PC was finally starting to break free from its bland business machine moorings.We no longer have to tolerate the whiny racket of 80 mm fans,liquid cooling is now readily available in sealed packages,and cases now have loads of dedicated holes and spaces for cable routing.
Meanwhile,mini-ITX machines now have performance that can rival full-sized desktop rigs,and we have access to amazing custom lighting setups. PC hardware enthusiasm is no longer considered a niche hobby either – Intel deliberately manufactures multiplier-unlocked processors for us, and hardware makers are falling over themselves to make more products that meet our needs.
Of course, technology continues top lough a head,and the march towards more powerful PC hardware shows no sign of letting up .All the CPUs we covered in Issue 1 were 32-bit, single core models, as there were no 64-bit desktop CPUs then, let alone evendual-core processors.Conversely,there’s a massive Labs test of sub-£1,000 CPU s in this issue(see p40),that goes all the way from 6-core mid-range model stotop-end chips with 16 cores.
AMD has even just launched a 64-core desktop CPU(see p 12). In 2003,not many people would have predicted that our print magazine about desktop PCs would still be here in 2020, 200 issues later,but it’s a huge privilege to be able to continue doing what we love.We hope you enjoy reading Issue 200 just as much as people loved reading Issue 1 of Custom PC Magazine at the time.
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Ben Hardwidge
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