(Nope, there aren’t any Battlefield 1 bundles being offered right now.)īuilding a PC around an AM3+ FX processor feels kind of worrisome right now, as AMD’s high-performance “Zen” processors are set to replace the aging platform in early 2017. And if you build a similar PC in the near future you’ll get two of 2016’s best PC games tossed in free, as AMD’s bundling FX processors with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided through November 13, and AM3+ motherboards come with a free copy of Doom until January 27. Multi-colored LEDs are essentially a gaming cliché by this point, but hey, I dig them.Īnywho, add it all up and you’re looking at a grand total of $844.94 for the complete PC at the time of this writing. Oh, and AMD tossed in a strip of red LED lights because Radeon. Case: Corsair Carbide 400C ATX Mid Tower, $97.49 on Amazon.Power supply: 550-watt modular Corsair CS550M, $79 on Amazon.Storage: 256GB Intel SSD 600p Series M.2 NVMe SSD, $95.45 on Newegg.Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866MHz RAM, $53 on Newegg.Graphics card: MSI Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 8GB, $245 on Amazon after $20 mail-in rebate.Motherboard: MSI 970A Gaming Pro Carbon, $90 on Amazon after $10 mail-in rebate.CPU and cooler: 8-core, 4GHz AMD FX-8370 with Wraith cooler, $185 on Amazon.Considering the rich, intertwined history between AMD, DICE, and “close to the metal” graphics technology, when AMD offered to send us a custom-built, all-AMD PC built with Battlefield 1 in mind for testing, we jumped at the offer.īefore we dive into performance, here’s a high-level look at every aspect of AMD’s Battlefield 1 PC. Mantle’s since been supplanted by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, but its legacy lives on, as AMD constantly trumpets how its PC hardware was designed to better leverage next-gen graphics APIs. Heck, DICE’s Star Wars: Battlefront served as the first-ever DX12 game to hit Xbox One-and Battlefield 1 is the first game in the series to support DX12 from day one. Long before DirectX 12 was a glimmer in Microsoft’s eye, DICE built support for AMD’s similar Mantle technology into its Frostbite engine and Battlefield 4, with technical director Johan Andersson cheerily praising Mantle’s capabilities to industry and press alike. More intriguingly, DICE leveraged its technical prowess to help push “closer-to-the-metal” graphics APIs into the world.

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