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Christian Guyton

This gamer’s secret to playing Valorant at 1,200 FPS is AMD’s X3D processors

Two agents in Valorant standing back-to-back

Good lord, those are some high framerates. Content creator @connorjaiye, best known for playing the fast-paced competitive shooter Valorant, put together a custom gaming PC with the help of AMD - and was able to net upwards of 1,200 fps in his favorite shooter.

The most fascinating part of the whole endeavor is that Connor didn’t even do this using the most high-end parts available; he used a previous-gen Radeon RX 6950 XT as his graphics card of choice, with a relatively bog-standard B650 motherboard from MSI pulling the build together.

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