1440p high-refresh
Andrew Gannel
For the 165Hz-and-up crowd: 1440p that keeps pace with your monitor.
£1,749
Includes VAT where applicable · Free collection from Dollar, Clackmannanshire
- X3D gaming CPU - the cache that competitive frame rates are made of
- Drives high-refresh 1440p in esports titles and stays fast in heavy releases
- Liquid-cooled with tuned curves: serious thermals, civilised noise
- Individually benchmarked over an 8-hour burn-in, results in writing
Pay when you collect - bank transfer or cash. Send the enquiry and I'll confirm the details and the price, then we book the build in.
2-year labour warranty on every build. Want it specced differently?
Description
What you're getting
Andrew Gannel is for players with a 165Hz, 185hz or 240Hz 1440p monitor who want the machine to actually feed it. The X3D processor's 3D V-Cache is the single biggest upgrade for high-refresh gaming, and here it's paired with a 16GB GPU that doesn't bottleneck it.
This tier also moves to liquid cooling and a roomier airflow case - not for spec-sheet bragging, but because sustained high frame rates are a thermal problem, and solving it quietly is the difference between a good build and a great one.
Hand-built in Dollar, burned in for 8 hours, shipped with its own benchmark and thermal report.
Tech specs
The full sheet
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (8 cores / 16 threads, 3D V-Cache)
- GPU
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 16GB
- Memory
- 32GB DDR5-5600 or faster (2×16GB, EXPO enabled)
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Motherboard
- B650 chipset, AM5 socket, WiFi 6E + Bluetooth
- Cooling
- 360mm AIO RGB liquid cooler, tuned curves
- PSU
- 750W 80+ Gold, ATX 3.1
- Case
- Lian Li O11 Dynamic Mini V2, 8 unifan-style RGB fans
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro/Linux Distro of your choice, activated and updated
- Warranty
- 2-year labour, manufacturer parts warranties
Estimated performance
Frame rates at 1440p
Higher is smoother. Anything at or above the 60 mark plays comfortably; competitive players chase the numbers well past it.
Valorant
~700 fps
1440p · 1080p Low
CS2
~500 fps
1440p · 1080p Low
Fortnite
~500 fps
1440p · Performance
Apex Legends
~300 fps
1440p · High
The Finals
~220 fps
1440p · Low
Black Ops 3: Zombies
~235 fps
1440p · High
marker = 60 fps
Why you can trust these numbers
These are estimates, not measurements. Nobody can promise you an exact frame rate before your machine exists, and any shop that does is guessing at you with a straight face.
Each figure is the average frame rate that this exact combination of processor and graphics card is widely reported to hit, at the resolution and settings written beside it. Where a game is running with upscaling (DLSS or FSR) that's stated too, because leaving it out is how a mediocre number gets dressed up as a good one. Where a game caps its own frame rate, the cap is what you see - not a bigger, meaningless number.
What is measured is your specific machine. Before it leaves the bench it runs 8 hours of processor, graphics and memory stress testing, and you get that machine's own temperatures and results in writing.
Andrew Gannel · £1,749
Built to order, tested for 8 hours, and covered by a 2-year labour warranty. Returns & warranty