Duocast HYPERX $89 Light touch The HyperX Duocastis flexible, in more ways than one.As the name suggests, you have the option here to switch between two polar patterns,traditional cardioid for single-user recording, and omnidirectionalfor recording multiple speakers at once. That makes it a good pick for podcast recording on a budget, providing you’re prepared to huddle around itfor the best capture. It’ll also add something of a vibe to your recording sessions,thanks to an adjustable RGB ring around the bottom of the mic unititself. Sound-wise the capture is excellent, with a clear and crisp pickup no matter which mode you have the mic in. The Ngenuity software allows you to play around with audio and RGB options and the top-mounted tap-to-mute feature works well. However, the fly in the ointment here is the flimsy construction. The stand feels plasticky, and the mic wobbles around easily in its shockmount. Still, it’s relatively cheap, and the sound quality is notto be sniffed at. SPECS POLAR PATTERNS:CARDIOID/OMNIDIRECTIONAL / CONNECTIVITY: USB / SAMPLE RATE: 96KHZ / FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20-20,000HZ 4 Crystal clear sound Choice of pickup patterns Flimsy stand and mount V E R D I C T 101 G R O U P T E S T 4 XCM-50 RODEX $150 Small but mighty Everyone likes a compact piece of hardware that punches well above its weight, and the Rode X XCM-50 is just that. Tank-like construction and the addition of a solid tripod mount that folds into an easily transportable tube means this mic feels like a very tough piece of kit. It’s not just the build quality where the XCM-50 shines either. It captures a toasty-hot sound with a nice level of crispness and isn’t prone to plosives or hissy sibilance, while the Unify software gives you plenty of mixing options. The red front-mounted dial with a hidden mute button is a nice touch too. The slightlet-down is that tripod stand, which, while reassuringly sturdy, only has two levels of height adjustment, and even atits tallestit stilltakes up a fair bit of your desk footprint despite the diminutive size of the microphone itself. It’s also a bit heavy, even for such a small mic unit. Still,the littleRode impresses as a heavyweight contender in a compact package. SPECS POLAR PATTERNS:CARDIOID / CONNECTIVITY: USB-C / SAMPLE RATE: 48KHZ / FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 50-20,000HZ 3 Pleasingly crisp sound Builtlike a tank Stand could dowith more adjustment V E R D I C T A GOOD PICK FOR PODCAST RECORDING ON A BUDGET
102 G R O U P T E S T FEELS LIKE THE SORT OF GEAR YOU’D EXPECT TO FIND 5 IN A PROFESSIONAL STUDIO
Group Test H A R DWA R E 103 M ICR O P H O NE P O LAR PATTERNS EXPLAINE D Cardioid This polar pattern captures a heart-shaped area of sound around the front ofthe mic, making it resistantto background noises and resulting in a usable vocal signal. Supercardioid Asupercardioid pattern captures a slightly narrower ‘bubble’ of sound atthe front ofthe mic, while also picking up a small amountfrom the rear for added depth. Bi-directional Abi-directional pattern captures audio from both the front and the rear ofthe microphone, which is perfectfor two people talking into the same mic from either side atthe same distance. Omnidirectional These microphones have the same sensitivity from all directions, making them greatfor capturing a whole room or multiple speakers at the same time. Seiren Mini RAZER $40 Super smol The Seiren Mini is all about delivering a no fuss microphone at a bargain price without compromising on the audio quality. Razer has cut all extraneous elements from this diminutive microphone while still using the same essential components from its higherprice Seiren range. That means you getthe same quality of audio capture—though with only a solitary supercardioid pattern—but without any extra features. That can be both a blessing and a curse depending on what you want. If you’re after just a good desktop mic to use instead of your dodgy headset mic it’s great, butif you want more controlfor more serious use then the lack of volume, gain, or even a mute button will be a frustration. There’s no option for a boom arm mount, either. For me, being able to just plug itin and go without having to think aboutit at all, makes it my favorite budget gaming mic bar none.And it comes in different colors,too, which has gotto be a win however you look atit. SPECS POLAR PATTERNS: SUPERCARDIOID / CONNECTIVITY: USB / SAMPLE RATE: 48KHZ / FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20-20,000HZ 6 Plug and play Bargain price No on-mic controls V E R D I C T XDM 100 RODE $250 Huge and hefty The Rode XDM 100 is a serious bit of kit, and that becomes obvious the second you hold one. It’s supremely well-built, and feels like the sort of gear you’d expect to find in a professional studio. It also comes with an excellent pop-filter, and a substantial shock-mount to keep it isolated. What’s missing here is a stand, as the XDM 100 expects nothing less than a substantial boom arm to hold itself aloft, and you’ll have to buy that separately. Much like the Shure MV7, this is a mic that likes to get close to capture all the fidelity it can, and if you bring it near you can expect stellar vocal capture, warm tones and sparkly highs. This is far too much microphone for many users, but those of you looking to get serious about audio quality without investing in an XLR mixer will find all you need here. There’s a single USB-C port for connectivity and some robust gain and headphone controls, but when it comes to pure audio chops, it’s got you covered. SPECS POLAR PATTERNS:CARDIOID / CONNECTIVITY: USB-C / SAMPLE RATE: 48KHZ / FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20-20,000HZ 5 Immenselywell-built Warm and focused sound More than mostwill need V E R D I C T 6
This is the way the world ends”, wrote TS Eliot in his 1925 poem The Hollow Men. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” It’s hard to say if Eliot was writing directly about Nvidia and AMD’s support for multi-GPU setups or speaking more allegorically. Perhaps we’ll never know. What we can all roundly agree on is that Eliot lands on a truism when it comes to technology in general: there’s never an announcement. Yesterday’s Next Big Thing is instead quietly escorted out of the building and stuffed into a bin away from prying eyes. We didn’t get any press releases confirming the formal demise of 3D TVs in the mid-2010s, we’ll get no such PR when VR dies in 2030 (fight me), and neither SLI nor Crossfire gotthe official state funerals they deserved when, at some pointin the lastfive years, multi-GPU PC builds simply stopped being a thing. The conceptis an old one. Even in the days before 3DFX was the last word inPC gaming graphics hardware, before the Nvidia buyout,the company behindVoodoo was finding ways to run two ofits cards in parallel.Voodoo 2 introduced scan-line interleave (SLI) supportin February 1998. For context,that’s three months before Unreal came out, and only a few weeks after the discovery of penicillin. To the consumer, it worked justlike later iterations ofSLI and Crossfire did: you placed two identical graphics cards in your motherboard’sPCI slots, and connected them with a proprietary ribbon cable. That enabled your twoVoodoo 2s to process graphical rendering tasks in parallelfor faster performance. That was the theory. EARLY PROBLEMS Butthe problems for 3DFX’s earlySLI were the same ones that ultimately spelled the end for multi-GPU gaming three decades later. The biggie: games didn’t automatically recognize that you had two graphics cards available, and they didn’t know how to make use of allthat extra bandwidth. To make that happen, game developers needed to write code specifically to make use oftwo graphics cards running in parallel.And that provoked the usual chicken-egg conundrum that befalls so many pioneering technologies: without a large enough user base demandingSLI support,there wasn’t much incentive on developers to spend more time and money writing the code to support and optimize it.And withoutthe games to supportit,there wasn’t much consumer uptake on SLI.See also:VR.(I mean it, come and fight me.) Graphics hardware manufacturers’ solution atthe time was admirably route one: pay the developers to add in theSLI support. This would encourage more players to buy another graphics card,the thinking went.And once a sizable enough Two’s acrowd In addition to the technology that allowed multiple discrete cards to be linked together, allthe big stakeholders in PC graphics also began to design multi-GPU circuits on a single card. Even the humble 3DFX Voodoo 2 featured three separate cores, although this wasn’t mentioned as a major marketing beat atthe time. By 2011,when AMD released the Radeon 6990 dual-GPU cards, the concept had hit its peak. Even in its heyday though, therewere issues with efficiency. DOUBLETROUBLE Whatever happened to MULTI-GPU setups? It always looked cool, didn’t it? Shame the performance couldn’t match the visuals. 104 TECH REPORT “
user-base had built up, it would be a no-brainer for devs to supportSLI in their subsequenttitles. SLI momentum gathered in 2005 whenAMD brought Crossfire to market. To use twoAMD cards at once, you needed to build your system around a new Crossfirecompatible motherboard, butthe basic principle was the same as 3DFX’s original vision, and the rebranded ‘scalable link interface’that Nvidia was pushing. Two identical cards in PCIe slots, connected via a ribbon cable. In simple terms, the way those cards connected to each other and to your PC meant that it was relatively straightforward to add more than two cards to that parallel processing sequence. Certainly more straightforward than it was to support the newfangled four-way SLI and Crossfire setups that were finding their way into tower cases. BEST IMPLEMENTATIONS In truth, doubling up on identical cards never gave you close to a 100%performance increase, which is what you’d quite reasonably hope for as a consumer. You paid precisely twice as much money as you would for a single card, and the combined specs ofthose two cards are now exactly double that of a lone GPU. Ifthat seems incredibly naive now, it’s only becauseSLI was such a let-down in the first place. As a rule ofthumb, in the bestimplementations of dual-GPU gaming,two cards would net you roughly the equivalent performance to buying the next card above itin the hierarchy—two GTX8600s might operate at roughly the same FPSspeeds as one GTX8800.Butthe financial outlay was considerably more for theSLI setup. Adding a third and fourth card broughtincreasingly marginal gains, and added a lot of heatto your system too, justto compound matters. The hotter those four sandwiched cards ran,the more their performance suffered. Despite allthose issues, multi-GPU builds remained popular throughoutthe 2000s and 2010s among builders. It was never quite mainstream; you wouldn’tfind Dell offering pre-built rigs withSLI-ed cards, but Cyberpower et al were happy to oblige.Part ofthe appeal was doing itfor the visuals. Before we could addRGBto our cooling tubes andRAM modules, showing off a fat stack of graphics silicon all chained together like incredibly computationally intelligent prisoners was a realflex. It said, ‘I know this isn’tthe best way to spend my money, butI’ve bloody gone and done it anyway’. It didn’t matter that despite Nvidia andAMD’s best efforts with driver support and collaborations with developers for per-release support, trying to run games inSLI often led to more instability and worse performance levels than with a single card. Much like overclocking, it was an expression ofPC gaming’s inherent tuner culture winning over common sense. Until it stopped winning. The last card to officially support multi-GPU processing was the RTX 3090 back in 2021, which featured Nvidia’s rebranded NVLink. Nvidia didn’t even try that hard to marketit as a gaming card, and developers have long since stopped wasting precious hours on coding in SLI support. The money simply ran out before consumer demand grew big enough. VR’s biggest stakeholders would do wellto remember that. Phil Iwaniuk T WIN FLA M ES Fourduos thatwork farbetter thanSLIorCrossfire everdid T H E SC H U M AC H ERS German Formula One legends Michael and Ralf have a combined seven world championships. They’re all Michael’s. LAUREL AN D H AR D Y Silent film comedians who successfully transferred to ‘talkies’, Stan and Ollie get a mention for services to slapstick. M IC H AEL CERA AN D CERAVE The Superbowl ad collaboration that shouldn’t have worked, but did. Rock-solid FPS, too. T H E KELCE BR O T H ERS Gridiron stars (and podcasters) Travis and Jason haven’t played for the same team since college (go Bearcats!) FAR LEFT: Modern-day modders have built bridges for classic Voodoo 2 SLI setups. LEFT: How quickly aspirational setups become nostalgic images, eh? SLI MOMENTUM GATHERED WHENAMD BROUGHT CROSSFIRE TO MARKET NBAE via Getty Images, GeneralPhotographicAgency Tech Report H A R DWA R E 105
106 T E C H TA L E S H A R DWA R E Collecting old hardware isn’t just a hobby now. There’s an element of archivism to it; of gathering important historical documents that might otherwise end up in landfill. Image how many Voodoo 3s are out there in landfill right now, covered in nappies and Hello Fresh leftovers and being pecked at by seagulls. Imagine. Here’s the thing,though: it’s a faff, isn’tit?Allthe eBay alerts. Allthe postage fees.Allthe forumtrawling,the tracking down of ol’ manuals,the hoping and praying that various disparate beige parts will sing together in harmony rather than—more likely—start a small electricalfire. There’s an alternative to retro PC gaming the analog way: just run a virtual machine inside your modern gaming rig. The benefits to this are numerous: no procession offusty-smelling boxes arriving in the mail containing old PC parts you boughtfor slightly more than you’re happy about.Almost no financial outlay at all, in fact: only the cost ofthe operating system that you’ll install within that virtual machine, and which we definitely all always pay for. Like WinZip. It’s also a big space-saver, of course.And while you’re losing out on the nostalgic bong hit of seeing a cluster of lovely off-white boxes amass in your home like a vein of pure gold on a rockface,for a lot of people who have to share their home with partners, children, housemates and miscellaneous other people who don’t bow in reverence to metal cases with ‘Pentium Inside’ stickers on them,that trade-offis completely worth it. The downside: it’s notthe simplest or most user-friendly process, and since you’re essentially trying to trick old games into thinking they’re running on hardware thatisn’t physically present, you do run into compatibility issues. Best of allthe software options in this regard is VirtualBox, a free, open-source VM program for Windows-based systems. Installing VirtualBox is the easy bit. Setting up a new VM is a bittrickier—you’re essentially deciding how much of your actual, physical hardware’s resources to dedicate to running simulated versions of older legacy graphics cards, CPUs,RAM and storage. That’s a big ask. The temptation is to max out every option and create a monster PC to run your old games on, butin practice this only causes problems. Those old games were designed at a time when nobody had more than, say, 16MBofRAM, so not only will allocating 128MBofitto your VM not help performance, it often completely confuses it and provokes crashes. Instead, it’s bestto use VirtualBox’s suggested defaults, install your retro version of Windows, and observe the results. The specs of your physical hardware matter here. Running a VM is quite intensive on yourRAM, so the more the merrier, particularly for more recent retro-gaming eras like WinXP. One downside to this approach is that VirtualBox really wants to run Windows, programs, and games in your monitor’s native resolution, and that creates havoc with black boxes and stuttery mouse inputs when you’re outputting a ’90s classic onto a 4Kscreen. In those instances, PCem is worth a look. Rather than a virtual machine,this one’s an emulator of old PC ecosystems. But don’t worry—it’s notinfringing IP like console emulators that replicate manufacturers’ closed systems, instead replicating the broad specs of PC systems from certain bygone eras. It’s trickier to set up than VirtualBox, which itself is no cakewalk, butthere are plenty of video and text-based tutorials outthere to smooth the journey.And when you’ve gotit set up, you should generally find better compatibility with games from the era you’ve setit up for. EXTRA LITTLE WRINKLE An extra little wrinkle for retro enthusiasts is thatin this emulator environment, specific cards are modeled based on circuitry documentation from the original hardware. So if WIN-CEPTION Thejoy of running avirtual machine with an older OS within your modern rig P H IL I WANIUK There’s more beige in veteran games writer Phil’s house than at a British restaurant. Soon you’ll be able to see his priceless (also spelled ‘worthless’) hardware collection from space. THE TEMPTATIONIS TO MAXOUT EVERY OPTIONANDCREATE A MONSTER PC VIRTUA D ISLIKER Fouralternatives tocreatingaVM 1 BUIL D A RETR O PC Considerably more expensive, but there’s nothing like having a glorious tower of vintage hardware to run your games locally. 2 JUST PLAY RE M ASTERS Leave it to Nightdive Studios and the like. Rather than chasing after the old days, they’ll make the old days come to you. 3 E M BRACE NE W STUFF The concept is so alien to this writer that you’re probably going to just have to put placeholder text in here. TikTok. Battle passes. 4G O BACK IN TI M E The brightest minds in physics have yet to crack it, but it’s got to be easier than finding Hercules 3D Prophet Mk. II drivers.
107 you wantto play an old Win95 game on a machine with the same specs as the PC you used to play them on, you’ve got a decent chance of dialing that setting in. Its effect on the game experience is basically negligible, exceptfor in scenarios where certain games support Glide or Direct3D, for example, and you wantthe distinctive look of one API or the other. SCRATCH THE ITCH Personally, I can’t properly scratch the itch for retro gaming this way. It’s the game I used to play, butit’s been output onto a modern monitor, and I’m controlling it using a mechanical keyboard and a wireless mouse. Something aboutthat doesn’t give me the same experience as sitting down at a truly vintage hardware setup and admiring the way a classic title looks when its pixels hit a CRT screen. VMs can be useful in a utilitarian way,for figuring out compatibility and speccing out your next proper retro build, but there’s a lot of value-tweaking, troubleshooting and immersionbreaking modern peripherals between you and your treasured memories. Phil Iwaniuk ABOVE: Classic hardware like this needs to be preserved. See it: buy it. BELOW: For more granular control over the specs of your VM, try PCem.
Budget build PC gaming is for everyone. Pick the parts youwant to build a new,well-rounded PC for a good price. Mid-range build Youwantto run every newgame at1080p 60fps. This recommended buildwill see you through. Advanced build You’re looking forthe best PC on the market and superior components. But you stillwantto spend smart. BuildthebestPCfor yourbudget BUYER’S GUIDE YO U R N E X T P C KEY 108 BU D GET A D VANCE D M I D -RANGE
Core i5 13400F Intel $186 Intel’s added four more cores to its entry-level Core i5 and it’s become even more fantastic value. B660M Pro RS ASRock $90 This is as cheap as we wantto go while still offering room for expansion and upgrades down the line. Zauron Aerocool $60 This Aerocool will let your components breathe and has space forfurther expansion and cooling. WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm Western Digital $32 (not in budget) You don’t need an HDD (we haven’tincluded itin the total cost) so feel free to cutthis to save cash, but one sure helps with storage. T O TAL $1,105 T-Force Vulkan Z 16GB Teamgroup $36 Goodbye 8GB, hello 16GB of speedy DDR4-3200. WD Black SN770 500GB Western Digital $61 It’s finally time to ditch SATA and go for an NVMe drive even in a budget machine such as this. Laminar RM1 (included with CPU) Intel Free There’s room for an upgrade here, but on a budgetthe included CPU will work justfine. BUDGET BUILD Enjoy1080p gaming without breaking the bank 109 MOTHERBOARD PROCESSOR GRAPHICS CARD COOLER MEMORY POWER SUPPLY SSD HDD CASE DISPLAY KEYBOARD MOUSE HEADSET HS55 Stereo Corsair $47 CorsaIr’s budget cans are comfy and have a surprisingly excellent microphone forthe money. Radeon RX 7600 AMD $260 You could spend a bit more on an RTX 4060, butfor a genuinely budget machine we’re siding with AMD G203 Logitech $30 A classic shape delivered in a sleek shell,this mouse fits all hand sizes and grips. Mobiuz EX240 BenQ $190 You can get an excellent gaming monitorfor not a huge sum of cash nowadays, and this BenQ is ourfavourite on a budget. KM250 RGB G.Skill $50 It’s actually mind blowing what you can pick up forthis little cash: A hot-swappable mechanical board thatlooks lovely. Pure Power 12 M 550W BeQuiet! $95 We have to run a 550W PSU forthe RTX 4060, as per Nvidia’s recommendations. Buyer’s Guide H A R DWA R E
T O TAL $1,563 MID-RANGE BUILD Our recommended build for playing thelatest games 110 Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-3200 Corsair $40 With plenty of capacity at16GB,this unembellished memory has everything you need for gaming and more. Laminar RM1 (included with CPU) Intel Free Intel bundles a redesigned CPU cooler with some 13th Gen processors. This little chip chiller will serve us well for a while B660M Mortar WiFi MSI $160 This MSI board delivers everything we need in a compact package and allows us to use much cheaper DDR4 memory. H7 NZXT $130 It’s very clever of NZXT to design such an easy PC case to build into, and make itlook so gorgeous too. WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm Western Digital $32 (not in budget) Justlike in the budget build,this HDD isn’t strictly necessary, butfor a pretty low price it’s nice to have plenty of extra space. S2722DGM Dell $270 With a snappy 165Hz refresh rate and a 1440p resolution,this Dell is an enviable blend of monitor performance. Core i5 13400F Intel$208 Yes,this is the same CPU as the budget build. It’s simply too good value to miss and perfectfor high fps gaming. MOTHERBOARD PROCESSOR GRAPHICS CARD COOLER MEMORY POWER SUPPLY SSD HDD CASE DISPLAY KEYBOARD MOUSE HEADSET RX 7700 XT AMD $400 If you can spare the extra cash,the RX 7800 XT is a tantalising upgrade. Nevertheless, we’ll optfor AMD’s cheaper card. Pure Power 12 M 650W BeQuiet! $100 This larger Be Quiet! PSU offers a stable platform with modern PCIe 5.0 connectivity. KM250 RGB G0.Skill $50 You could spend more for a full-size gaming keyboard, butthis G.Skill will certainly suffice for most gamers. DeathAdder V2 Razer $50 Tried and tested,this Razer mouse is a superb companion for competitive gaming without breaking the bank. Cloud Alpha HyperX $80 We’re still not overthe awesome audio quality and excellent comfort ofthe HyperX Cloud Alpha. NM790 1TB Lexar $75 The Lexar proves you can, sometimes, have it all: blazing speeds, cool operation and a great price. Buyer’s Guide H A R DWA R E
MEG X670E Ace MSI $699 There are cheaper X670 boards than this, but we’re going extreme and this is one of the mostfully featured around. Ryzen 9 7950X3D AMD $593 AMD’s 3D stacked chips are awesome for gaming,thanks to heaps of cache. This Ryzen 9 is the best ofthe bunch T O TAL $5,629 ADVANCED BUILD Go aboveand beyond with a PC powerfulenough to end worlds 111 MOTHERBOARD PROCESSOR GRAPHICS CARD COOLER MEMORY POWER SUPPLY BOOT DRIVE DATA DRIVE CASE DISPLAY KEYBOARD MOUSE HEADSET NM790 4TB Lexar $272 With 4TB of storage, it’s going to take one seriously big Steam library to get anywhere close to filling this drive up. Buyer’s Guide H A R DWA R E GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Ed Nvidia $1,800 The RTX 4090 is immense, in every way. The performance it offers is unmatched by any GPU outthere. Prime TX-1000 Seasonic $305 An ATX 3.0 PSU would also be good here, but we’ve tested this Seasonic and know it’s worthy of such a build. Kraken X63 NZXT $170 One ofthe most stunning AIO coolers rebuilt with an updated pump, LGA 1700 bracket, and RGB lighting for more pizzazz. DeathAdder V3 Pro Razer $150 This is the best gaming mouse in our opinion, made better by an incredibly lightweightframe. WD Black SN850X 2TB Western Digital $120 We’re sticking with PCIe 4.0 here, and WD makes a mean PCIe 4.0 SSD. The SN850X is its bestto date, and 2TB is plenty. Trident Z5 RGB 32GB G.Skill $110 This is a new memory standard for a new era of memory speed. DDR5 is blisteringly and fantastically quick. ROG Azoth Asus $200 This keyboard’s secret? Lubed switches. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. It’s also wireless and very well made 5000D Corsair $155 We swearthis stylish mid-toweris bigger on the inside. It’s the PC equivalent of the TARDIS. Cloud Alpha Wireless HyperX $155 If you’ve settled on a wireless keyboard and mouse,the lastthing you wantis a pesky cable to your headset. 34 QD-OLED (AW3423DWF) Alienware $900 You could be much more sensible on your screen than this. Forthis build, however, we only wantthe best.
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