Wired2Fire R7X3D RTX 5080 Beast Gaming PC

This truly is a beast, being the best-specified and fastest RTX 5080 PC on test, but also the noisiest

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £2,333 (£2,800 inc VAT) from wired2fire.co.uk In some ways, the Wired2Fire Beast (we don’t have space to spell out its full name) is the polar opposite of the Scan 3XS Edge iCue (see p50), despite the two sharing the same GPU, CPU and price. Where the Scan is an ice queen, silent and aloof, the Beast lives up to its name with a domineering design, lashings of RGB colour and an ever-present low hum. The Beast also earns bragging rights by topping our performance table – if we limit ourselves to the trio of RTX 5080 systems on test this month – more times than either of its rivals. With the help of 64GB of top-quality XPG RAM, it squeezed the very most out of the Ryzen 7…

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