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Build a breathtaking Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing PC with these Black Friday deals

November 27, 2020RockPaperShotgun

[cms-block] hasn’t been particularly kind on the old graphics card and CPU deals front this year, but with just two weeks to go until the launch of CD Projekt Red’s Keanu Reeves RPG Cyberpunk 2077 and not a single fresh sighting of new RTX 3070 or RTX 3080 cards anywhere to be seen, the window for making any necessary PC upgrades is closing pretty fast. But I’m here to help. While I can’t magic up one of Nvidia’s new RTX 30 GPUs or any of AMD’s hot new Ryzen 5000 chips, I can tell you how to build a PC…

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We built our own Xbox Series X PC

November 20, 2020RockPaperShotgun

In my Xbox Series X review last week, I said Microsoft’s new diddy 4K powerhouse console was probably the best and cheapest way of bringing a PC-like gaming experience into your living room as a second machine. While it doesn’t provide all the luxuries we’re used to on PC, there’s no denying that it’s an impressive bit of kit for its size and price. But then I got thinking. While the Xbox Series X is certainly a lot more convenient than the full-sized tower PC plonked next to my TV, was it possible to build a similarly tiddly PC that…