Issue 60 of Custom PC on sale now

Posted at: 11:20am 25th July 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

We’re now officially five years old, and we’re marking the occasion with two special edition covers for the latest issue

Ready your party hats, dig out the candles and bake a big chocolate cake, Custom PC is now onto its 60th issue, which means that we’re now officially five years old. To mark this cause for merriment, we’ve released Issue 60 with a choice of two special edition covers; a green one featuring Nvidia’s new GTX 280 in all its glory, and a red one showing off ATI’s Radeon HD 4850. So, if you’re inclined towards irrational brand loyalty, you can pick the cover to suit your own fanboy affiliation, or you can just pick the one that you think looks best.

As the special edition covers suggest, Issue 60 features an in-depth comparative test of all the new next-gen graphics cards. This includes Nvidia's latest bank-busting GTX 280, and the lower-priced GTX 260, as well as ATI's brand new Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 cards.

However, there are plenty of other goodies in the mag too. For a start, we’ve got a review of Foxconn's new Blackops motherboard, with optional liquid-nitrogen cooling, and we've also got a full feature on multi-monitor gaming. Plus, if that's not enough for you, there's also a foolproof guide to building your own media PC, as well as a big group test of all the necessary components needed to put together a media PC.

Issue 60 of Custom PC is on sale at newsagents throughout the UK now, although you can also subscribe if you want to get your hands on future editions of the mag before they reach the shops.