iBUYPOWER - Gaming Desktop - Intel i9-10900K - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB - 1TB SSD
Model: BQ162i
SKU: 6452901
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Customers often highlight the iBUYPOWER Gaming Desktop's excellent performance and powerful CPU, with many praising its speed and ability to run demanding applications smoothly and quietly. However, some users expressed concerns about the included water cooler, citing issues and recommending replacement. The motherboard and GPU also received mixed feedback.
The good news: It booted up and worked just fine. Most importantly, it came with a working 3090 Gigabyte RTX OC. It only took about 10 days to receive it. The bad news: It does not have "custom liquid cooling". It's advertised to come with ibuypower's Element CL. But instead comes with a Ibuypower AIO 240mm cooler. Which is fine for the 10900k but it's not what was advertised. The video card has a loud coil whine. I've already had a couple crashes while gaming. Not listed in the specs: It comes with a High Power 800 watt power supply. The motherboard is a Asus Z490-P. The ram is Micron E die. I would have bought this item even it was advertised with its AIO cooler. Im just disappointed that it was advertised as having Element CL custom liquid cooling. If your only goal is to find yourself a 3090 then this should be work for you. At the time of this review they are unavailable everywhere unless you want to spend $3200 on ebay. So as of today this is awesome value. If I can figure out the issue I'm having with the game crashes I'd be happy to give this product 4 stars.
Posted by Mick
Poor experience I was so excited to be able to order an ibuypower hardline CL custom liquid cooled system with an i9-10900K cpu and 3090 gpu for $3099.99. When I received it, I felt like I was given the good ol bait and switch. I relied on Best Buy and ibuypower to deliver what I paid for and they both failed me. What I received instead was: i. Supposed to be a hardline custom liquid (CL) cooling system. Instead received a traditional 240mm liquid cooled AIO. It was not a custom liquid cooled as the specifications have listed (Best Buy removed all language of the hardline CL after received noted the lack of custom liquid cooled system). ii. Supposed to be an i9-10900K with igpu. Instead received an i9-10900KF which has no iGPU and usually is a price difference of $50-$100. The igpu would be handy if the video card ever breaks or if I wanted to not use the dedicated video card. iii. Supposed to receive a keyboard and mouse. Instead I received NOTHING. I asked Best Buy if I could receive one from them considering I spent $3100 with them and they told me they wouldn’t give me one and to instead return the whole system. In this gpu shortage, no way. I emailed ibuypower and no response. A phone call, no one picks up. Anyways, once I set up the PC and borrowed a keyboard/mouse from my work PC, I would get random reboots. It happened once a day and sometimes 5x in an hour so after a week of confusion I decided to update the motherboard bios and the reboots went away. An average consumer would probably return the system—I almost did until the bios update. Don’t gift this system to your grandma. The good things are I have an i9 cpu that’s lightly overclocked for gaming, an MSI Gaming X Trio 3090, and I installed aftermarket ram and manually tuned it to get me anywhere from 170 to 270 fps in Warzone. As a gamer who has no chance at defeating bots when buying the newest Nvidia video cards, my only choice is to keep the system as-is. Terrible. Best Buy and ibuypower don’t care, they have my money already.
Posted by Anonymous
Good: -Comes with the best CPU made in the past 5 years. -GPU was the Gaming X Trio. -Decent tier motherboard Bad: -RAM, PSU are no-name brands -I would not trust the water cooler; I swapped to an air unit just in case -Case should come with more fans Ugly: -Included mouse and keyboard are a bit off. Id rather have the option of saving $20-40
Posted by moocow
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