Memoir Two | RTX 5070 Ti 16GB + i5 14600KF | Ready-to-Go Gaming PC | PC36

⛰️ Memoir Two

Twenty threads and a 5070 Ti, on the memory that did not double in price

Memoir Two is the middle of the range and the one that makes the Memoir argument most convincingly. Fourteen cores and an RTX 5070 Ti, at a price DDR5 machines cannot currently reach.

The saving comes from the platform rather than from the parts you touch. Intel's LGA1700 socket is mature and still runs DDR4, which at the moment costs a fraction of what DDR5 does. That money goes into the graphics card and the memory capacity instead, which is where you actually notice it.

What you get is a machine that plays anything at 1440p with settings turned up, handles 4K when you ask, and has the core count to render and encode properly rather than merely adequately.

🧬 Built to last, designed to evolve

This system is built on the mature Intel LGA1700 platform using DDR4 memory. That is a deliberate choice and it is worth being straight about the trade-off. DDR4 is considerably cheaper than DDR5 right now, which is what lets this build carry a proper graphics card and a 360mm cooler at this price. The cost is a narrower CPU upgrade path than a current platform offers, since LGA1700 is at the end of its life rather than the start. Everything else stays wide open: graphics card, storage, memory capacity, cooling and case are all straightforward to change later.

📃 Specifications

• 🧠 CPU: Intel Core i5 14600KF
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  • 14 cores and 20 threads, split as 6 performance cores and 8 efficient cores, with 24MB of L3 cache
  • 5.3GHz maximum boost on the performance cores, 3.5GHz base. 125W base power and 181W under a full turbo load, which is why this build carries a 360mm radiator rather than a tower cooler
  • The hybrid layout suits this machine well. Games sit on the performance cores while background work, streaming software and Windows itself get pushed onto the efficient cores, so the two stop competing for the same resources
  • Fourteen cores at this price is the part that surprises people. In DaVinci Resolve, Blender and Handbrake it does work that a six or eight core processor at similar money simply cannot, and it is a step up from the 12th generation chip in Memoir One in exactly that area
  • The F suffix means no integrated graphics. On a machine with a 5070 Ti in it that is a saving rather than a loss, though it does mean there is no backup display output if the graphics card ever fails
  • Honest note on the K: this chip is unlocked, but the B760 chipset it sits on does not permit CPU overclocking, and we do not think you should want it to. See the motherboard section below
• ❄️ CPU cooler: Thermalright Aqua Elite V6 360mm ARGB
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  • 360mm radiator with three ARGB fans, mounted in the top as exhaust
  • This is a genuine requirement rather than a flourish. A 14600KF pulls up to 181W in a sustained all-core load, which is roughly double what a comparable AMD gaming chip draws. A large radiator is what keeps that quiet rather than merely survivable
  • Three 120mm fans across a 360mm radiator move the required air at low RPM. Fan speed is what you hear, so more surface area is the cheapest route to a quiet machine
  • Top mounted as exhaust, so processor heat leaves the case immediately rather than being pushed back down across the graphics card
• 🔲 Motherboard: MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi DDR4 (ATX)
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  • 12 phase power design, which is comfortably more than a 14600KF asks for even at its 181W ceiling. Plain English translation: the board holds the processor's boost clocks under sustained load rather than backing off when the power stages get warm
  • Four DDR4 slots supporting up to 128GB. Two are used by the memory fitted, so unlike a small form factor build you can add capacity later rather than replacing what is there
  • Two M.2 slots, both PCIe 4.0 x4, so a second fast drive can be added without touching the first
  • PCIe 4.0 x16 for the graphics card. The 5070 Ti is a Gen5 card and measured differences between Gen4 and Gen5 on it come to around 1%, so it is not the thing setting your frame rate
  • Intel Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and Realtek 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet onboard
  • Why a B760 and not a Z-board. Z-series is the chipset that unlocks CPU overclocking, and the DDR4 versions of those boards are effectively no longer available in the UK. Manufacturers stopped making them when the platform moved to DDR5. So on any current DDR4 LGA1700 build, from us or anyone else, the processor runs at its stock boost behaviour. We would rather tell you that plainly than let you find out when you go looking for the multiplier. Memory tuning and graphics card overclocking are both unaffected, and for what it is worth we would not recommend overclocking this processor even if the option existed - see the setup section below
  • PC36 only uses motherboards chosen for stability and longevity. See our Trusted brands page
• 📏 Memory / RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) DDR4-3200 CL16
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  • XMP-tuned dual channel DDR4-3200 CL16. DDR4-3200 is the speed Intel rates this processor for, so this kit runs exactly at specification rather than being pushed to reach it
  • 32GB is comfortable headroom for gaming, streaming and creative work at the same time. It is also the capacity that lets fourteen cores actually stretch out in Resolve or Blender, which is the point of buying this processor
  • Two of the four slots stay free, which is the practical advantage of a full size board over a small form factor one. Adding another 32GB later is a genuine option rather than a replacement kit
  • DDR4 pricing is the entire reason this series exists. If you want more memory, talk to us on live chat rather than using the dropdown, because we can usually do considerably better than the listed option on DDR4 specifically
  • Specification guaranteed, model may vary. Happy to confirm the exact part on request
• 💾 Storage: 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (TLC)
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  • TLC flash rated at 6,500MB/s or better, which holds its speed through long sustained writes rather than dropping off once a cache fills. From this tier upward we do not fit QLC drives
  • That matters more on this build than most. Fourteen cores and a 5070 Ti make a capable video editing machine, and a drive that slows during large file transfers is exactly the wrong bottleneck to put in front of it
  • Higher write endurance than the entry-tier alternative, which matters if you record gameplay, edit video, or install and uninstall a lot
  • A second M.2 slot sits free, plus mounts in the case for four 2.5 inch drives
  • Specification guaranteed, model may vary. Happy to confirm the exact part on request
• 🎮 Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
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  • Ultra settings at 1440p with room to spare, and genuinely capable at 4K in most modern titles. This is the step where 4K stops being something you compromise for and starts being a setting you can simply choose
  • 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus. The extra memory over a 5070 is the part that matters for longevity, since it is texture budgets rather than raw speed that tend to date a card first
  • Blackwell ray tracing hardware with DLSS 4 multi frame generation, which in supported titles makes path tracing something you leave switched on rather than switch on to look at
  • Also does real work outside games. The NVENC encoder handles streaming and recording without touching the processor at all, which matters more on this build than most, since the 14600KF has no integrated graphics to fall back on for encoding
  • The chipset and VRAM are guaranteed: it will always be an RTX 5070 Ti with 16GB. The AIB brand varies with availability, and we only use established manufacturers. See our Trusted brands page for more info
• 🧰 Case: Corsair Frame 4000D RS ARGB
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  • A high airflow mid-tower with a 3D Y-pattern steel front panel that Corsair measure at up to 12% more airflow than the previous 4000D
  • The InfiniRail fan mounting system is the interesting part. Instead of fixed screw holes, the fans slide along steel rails and clamp wherever you put them. It means we position fans where the airflow actually needs them for this specific build, rather than where a factory drilled a hole
  • Three RS120 ARGB fans come pre-installed as front intake, daisy chained so they run from a single PWM connector and a single ARGB header. Fewer cables in the chassis, which is exactly what you want
  • Supports graphics cards up to 430mm and CPU coolers up to 170mm tall, with room for two 360mm radiators simultaneously. There is a great deal of upgrade headroom here
  • Fully modular panels and reverse-connector motherboard support, plus mounts for two 3.5 inch and four 2.5 inch drives
• 🌬️ Case cooling: 3 × 120mm ARGB front intake and 1 × 120mm rear exhaust, plus 3 × 120mm on the AIO radiator
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  • Three Corsair RS120 ARGB fans pull cool air in through the mesh front, straight across the graphics card. We add a 120mm exhaust at the rear so warm air leaves on the shortest path
  • The 360mm radiator sits in the top as exhaust. Front in, top and rear out, which is the configuration this case is designed around and keeps processor heat away from the graphics card
  • Seven fans in total, all tuned to a manual curve before dispatch rather than left on the motherboard's defaults
  • Slight positive pressure by design, so air enters through the filtered front rather than through every gap in the chassis. In practice that means noticeably less dust inside a year from now
  • ARGB throughout, controllable from motherboard software, and it can be turned off entirely without affecting the look of the build
• ⚡ Power supply: Montech Century II 850W 80+ Gold, fully modular
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  • Includes a native 12V-2x6 PCIe 5.1 cable. That is the connector the RTX 5070 Ti uses, so the card plugs straight in with no adaptor and no dongle, and a future GPU upgrade will be the same
  • ATX 3.1 certified, which means it is built to absorb the brief power spikes modern graphics cards produce rather than tripping over them. That certification earns its keep on an Intel build specifically, because turbo behaviour is spikier than AMD's
  • 850W against a build drawing roughly 500W under a hard combined load. That margin keeps the unit in its quiet, efficient band and leaves genuine room for a larger graphics card later
  • Fully modular, so only the cables this build actually uses are installed. Less clutter behind the motherboard tray and easier servicing later
  • 80 PLUS Gold rated
• 🔌 Cabling: Stock black cabling, neatly arranged
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  • Black cables throughout, routed behind the motherboard tray and out of sight through the glass
  • Tidy but not overtightened, which keeps future upgrades straightforward rather than a dismantling job
  • Braided cable extensions in your choice of colour are available via the upgrade options if you want the combed look
• 📶 WiFi / Bluetooth / Ethernet: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, included
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  • Intel Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 built into the MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi. No separate adapter needed, and the aerial is supplied in the box
  • Wi-Fi 6E adds the 6GHz band, which is usually far less congested than 2.4 and 5GHz if your router supports it. Intel wireless is worth having over the budget alternatives, and it is one of the reasons we picked this board
  • 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet for a wired connection, which we would still recommend for competitive play
• 🪟 Operating system: As chosen by you from the listing options below. Windows 11 Home (OEM) is recommended.
• 🧹 Setup and optimisation: PC36 High-Class Standard. Full stress test with certificate, bloat-free installation, and BIOS set up properly
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  PC36 High-Class Standard, included free with every build

  • Ready the moment you open the box. Your PC boots straight into Windows with a local account already set up. No account sign-in wall, no first-run questionnaire, no half-hour of setup before you can use the machine you just bought
  • BIOS updated and configured properly: manual fan curves, XMP enabled, sensible power limits set rather than the board manufacturer's aggressive defaults, and Secure Boot enabled
  • Vanilla Windows 11 installation if you choose Windows, with no bloatware added by us, and all drivers loaded and ready to go
  • Full stress test with certificate. Every system is torture tested on CPU, RAM and GPU before dispatch, and ships with the certificate to prove it

  PC36 Premier Optimisation, available in the listing options

  • CPU tuning to bring thermals and noise down with minimal performance loss, plus a deeper strip and debloat of Windows
  • This is the option that does the most on an Intel build like this one, and it does more here than on Memoir One because there is more heat to manage. The 14600KF responds very well to a modest undervolt and properly set power limits: you keep essentially all of the gaming performance while cutting the heat, and therefore the fan speed, that comes with it. On AMD builds we describe this as a nice-to-have. Here it is the one we would actually recommend

  PC36 Ultimate Performance Tune, available in the listing options

  • Memory tune and GPU overclock on top of everything in Premier. Note that CPU overclocking is not part of this on any Memoir build
  • Being straight about what this includes and what it does not. The B760 chipset does not permit CPU core overclocking, so there is no multiplier tuning to sell you here and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
  • More to the point, we would advise against CPU overclocking on this platform even if the chipset allowed it, and on a 14th generation chip we would say so with some force. Pushing voltage into these processors is precisely what caused the degradation problems they became known for. The mitigation Intel released works by restraining voltage, so deliberately raising it again is working against the fix. On a mature Intel platform the sensible tuning direction is downward, not upward. Undervolting buys you a quieter, cooler, longer-lived machine. Overclocking buys you a few percent and a shorter life. We would rather sell you the first one.
  • What Ultimate does buy on this build is a proper memory tune, which DDR4 genuinely responds to, and a graphics card overclock, which on a 5070 Ti is worthwhile. If a fully unlocked processor is what you want, our AMD builds are the ones to look at and we will point you there honestly
• 🛡️ Warranty: 3 years parts & labour (return to base)
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  • Standard 3-year coverage included, parts and labour both
  • Optional extended warranties in the listing options below

👁️ Transparency notes

• The Intel degradation reports you may have read about do not affect the processor in this build (click or tap to read more)

  Worth addressing directly, because it is the first thing a careful buyer searches, and this is a 14th generation processor so it applies here. Intel identified a fault that could degrade 13th and 14th generation desktop chips over time when they were allowed to run at excessive voltages, and released microcode updates through motherboard manufacturers to prevent it. Every machine we build ships with a current BIOS carrying that microcode, with power limits set by us rather than a board manufacturer's aggressive defaults, and with a brand new processor that has never run a day without the fix in place. The mitigation prevents the problem arising, which is exactly why it matters that the chip is new and configured correctly from the start. If you would prefer to sidestep the question entirely, Memoir One uses a 12th generation processor which was never affected.

• This chipset does not allow CPU overclocking, and on a DDR4 Intel build we would not recommend it anyway (click or tap to read more)

  The 14600KF is an unlocked processor, but DDR4 Z-series boards are no longer available in the UK, so a B760 is the only sensible option on a DDR4 LGA1700 build. It is stated in the specification list as well, because it is the sort of thing a buyer discovers afterwards and feels misled about. For the avoidance of doubt: this is not a limitation we are apologising for. On a mature Intel platform we tune downward for heat and longevity rather than upward for a few percent, and we would give you that advice on a Z-board too.

• Product images are representative photos of a similar spec in the same style. Your PC will look similar but not identical. A Corsair Nautilus 360mm liquid cooler is pictured from an earlier photoshoot; if you would prefer that specific cooler, contact us. Our support team can help clarify anything you're unsure of.
• RGB heatspreaders on the RAM are not guaranteed unless the quick add-on is chosen - this is due to industry-wide supply constraints on memory
• Memory, SSD and graphics card carry a specification guarantee rather than a fixed model (click or tap to read more)

  Most parts are named models and will be what is delivered. RAM, SSD and graphics card instead carry a spec guarantee, because current market conditions make stock on those three very variable. This keeps us agile enough to offer good pricing and honest spec lists. If you want clarity on the precise models we will use, drop us a live chat on the day you're ready to purchase and we'll confirm it.

🛠️ Popular upgrade options

• Memory upgrade to 64GB: available in the listing options below, or via live chat for the best price.
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  Worth it only if you already know why you want it: large 3D scenes, multi-track 4K video timelines, or virtual machines. For gaming, including heavily modded gaming, the 32GB fitted as standard is not the limit and more will not gain you frames. Two slots stay free, so this can also be added later. Talk to us on live chat rather than using the dropdown, because DDR4 pricing moves and we can usually beat the listed option.

• Storage upgrade to 2TB: available in the listing options below.
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  Worth it for most people buying at this level. Modern AAA installs regularly run past 150GB each, and if you are capturing footage the 1TB drive fills faster than you expect. The second M.2 slot is free either way, so this can also be added later.

• Need a monitor, keyboard or mouse? Scroll past the add to cart button. We've paired specific peripherals to get the best out of this build.
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  This machine handles 1440p at high refresh comfortably and reaches into 4K. If your monitor is a 1080p 60Hz panel, that is where the next money should go, because it is currently discarding most of what this build produces.

• GPU upgrade to RTX 5080 16GB: speak with us via live chat, or look at Memoir Three.
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  Worth it if 4K at ultra is where you actually want to end up rather than somewhere you occasionally visit. Memoir Three is that machine already specified properly, with the i7 14700KF, a thicker radiator and a 1000W supply to match. Ask us and we will tell you honestly whether your games justify the step.

• Braided cable extensions: available from the quick-add upgrades section.
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  Worth it if you want the interior to match, since the Frame 4000D's glass panel leaves the main chamber on show. Choose your colours by leaving a note on your order or contacting us via live chat.

• White colourway: available via live chat.
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  The Frame 4000D comes in white, and we can match the cooler and fans to it. Ask us and we will price it up.

🎯 What is this PC best for?

• 1440p gaming at high to ultra settings in modern titles
• Esports and competitive gaming at high refresh rates
• 4K gaming at high settings, with DLSS 4 where you want more headroom
• Gaming and streaming at the same time, with the efficient cores absorbing the background load and the graphics card handling the encoding
• Video editing, rendering and encoding, where fourteen cores do work well above this price
• Buyers who want the most performance per pound available right now and are comfortable trading future CPU upgrades for it

📊 Performance estimates

Figures are given at both 1440p and 4K. Performance varies with game updates, maps, settings and background apps. These are estimates, not guarantees.

Fortnite - Competitive Settings (click or tap to expand)

1440p: 280-350 FPS
4K: 180-230 FPS
Native testing (no upscaling or frame generation).

Cyberpunk 2077 - Ray Tracing Medium (click or tap to expand)

1440p: 110-140 FPS
4K: 68-88 FPS
Upscaling set to Auto (DLSS / FSR / XeSS based on GPU).

Battlefield 6 - High Settings (click or tap to expand)

1440p: 130-165 FPS
4K: 82-105 FPS
Native testing (no upscaling or frame generation).

DaVinci Resolve - PugetBench Standard (click or tap to expand)

Estimated score: 8,000-9,000

💬 Need help?

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