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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Hot hot hot
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I will be returning this PC.
The form factor is very adorable and fits great in any living room. Most of the components seem decent. The model of the RTX 3070 is not listed but mine came with a Gigabyte Eagle OC. The PSU and RAM are some random brand but they might be decent. The PC booted and displayed an image with no problem and worked with a Bluetooth keyboard and connected to wifi with no issues.
Now here are some issues I had with it:
The fans are connected to a fan controller and I didn't want to mess with that too much as I'm going to return it but they ran a little loud and did not ramp up under load to keep anything cool. That might be fixable by connecting the fans directly to the fan headers.
The X.M.P. profile was not enabled out of the box which is an easy fix for some people but I would guess a lot of those buying prebuilts don't want to deal with that crap. Then they wouldn't be getting what they paid for. I understand AMD specs kinda consider that overclocking though.
The worst part is the CPU cooler. Besides the unresponsive fan speed, I think this random AIO just won't make solid contact with the CPU. It would hit 90C and throttle hard almost immediately. The hardware was fully tightened and the thermal paste was fine. The power profile didn't seem to make any difference and I tried to fix it in the BIOS every way I could think of. To put it in perspective, my 5900x was only scoring around 8000 points in Cinebench R23.
I never got to test game performance as the CPU was overheating but the Gigabyte Eagle OC is supposed to be a good card.
I hope the rest of you have better luck if you decide to get this PC!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Ree
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fire, its not too bad for a prebuilt and it runs most games fine