It’s not often I have particularly strong feelings about PC cases, but man alive there’s a lot going on with Asus’ new ROG Strix GL12CX desktop. You’ve got your swishes, your slashes, your grilles and your grates, matt versus gloss versus RGB lighting, and even a full-blown chasm thanks to its hot-swap SSD bay. It’s a lot to take in, but provided you can get over its many-textured exterior, there’s a boat load of power to be found in its water-cooled innards, including an Intel Core i9-9900K processor, 32GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. Of course, with a spec like that, the GL12CX is naturally a tad expensive. £3000, to be precise, when it launches late this November, although there will be an ever-so-slightly cheaper configuration with a Core i7-9700K and 16GB of RAM available for £2500 as well (which is also the model you’ll find in the US for a princely $3300). “Three grand!?” I hear you exclaim. “A PC can’t possibly be worth that much!” Well, that’s what we’re about to find out. Let’s take a look. The first thing I will tell you is that this thing is goddamn loud. Despite its Core i9 CPU being hooked up to a water cooler tucked away in the top of the PC, I thought I’d suddenly been transported to an airport hangar the first time I turned this on, so loud and deafening were its various fans and whizz pop machines. Its performance profile… [Read full story]
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