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Assembled in the USA. What? Does that mean that it's gonna break down every seven thousand
kilometers? Okay so they've got a customer care number printed right on the box, it's pretty cool.
Well, it comes with a Gandia's mechanical keyboard and mouse
set. That is pretty surprising I'm excited to try these out
And then we've got a little baggie of useful stuff.
Got a pretty good quick-start guide. In the front, in relatively standard DeepCool,
fashion we have a solid tempered bit of glass, with three fans behind it and some ventilation
effect on the sides. The front iO isn't great, there's only one USB 3 and no type-c ports,
but we do have a bunch of radiator support in the top and then around the back, we have
a rear iO that would have been disappointing back in 2013. This case has one of those glass
mounting methods that mean you kind of have to soil the entire pane of glass to get it off,
there we go. Look at how tiny it is! They chose like the smallest m80x motherboard with like a
tiny 2060. In a pretty big case, it looks so ridiculous. The next thing that stands out
to me is that Thermaltake cooler, which looks suspiciously like a Golden Field Terrible Orb,
which as its name suggests, was a pretty terrible cooler so let's jump
to the future after the testing, take that cooler off and have a closer look at it.
Let's have a look at what's going on under that cooler, not meaning to spoil anything
later on, but I'm really hoping there's a thermal-based application issue under there,
although I wouldn't bet on it.
Okay, maybe that'll give us easier access.
Okay, oh, i've seen this mounting method before. I really hate it. Hmm,
I guess the thermal paste application isn't a complete disaster, okay this cooler is pretty
much just a Golden Field terrible orb, with like a 'different' bit of crap plastic glued
on the front and if that Golden Field terrible orb cooler's performance is anything to go by,
this system's gonna run hotter than even the wildest hot tub stream.
But anyway, aside from the industry-standard CPU cooler equivalent of a weak fart on a forest fire,
this is about a $1200 system, and for that, you're getting an i7 10700F which is an 8-core,
16-thread CPU, and you get 16 gigs of RAM in dual-channel, hell yeah! Next up,
you get a 512 gig Intel 660p NVME SSD and an RTX 2060. Power supply wise,
in this one, we have an EVGA 600GD which is a 600 watt, 80 plus gold-rated power supply.
In terms of cable management, It's perfectly serviceable, although I will say that it's quite
an interesting technique that they used here. They route all the cables in ways that I've not
really seen before. Okay with that, let's get to the fun part! Let's fire it up and see what
kind of venereal disease we're working with. Oh, mousepad! Just the smallest mousepad ever,
so if you're like a 'flick king' this this isn't gonna work for you. Here we have the
super generic, budget gaming mouse, and look it's a mechanical e-waste keyboard,
not a very good one, but a mechanical keyboard. Wow, you know that it's a pc built by purely
practical people when the background's just flat gray but other than the, "I have no strong
feelings, one way or the other, background", this is a pretty standard windows launch, uh, you have
RGB Fusion installed as standard, which um I guess technically isn't venereal bloatware, but I count
rgb software as venereal bloatware. Other than that though, there's a an abs shortcut, which
just seems to be advertising for a better version of the system than I bought. Which, I don't know,
it feels a bit rude? Whoa there's nothing else on here, there's like no bloatware other than
Windows on this system. Which, good job abs! That's that's very impressive. Although, I, I,
do really miss McAfee, um, but anyway. With that, let's see what kind of gaming experience we get.
Okay, this is getting kind of ridiculous, I've been trying to get like an extended gaming
session in, to just see how the system behaves, and in about 20 minutes we've had 4 hard crashes,
straight to the Desktop with Battlefield V. Battlefield V is relatively prone to hard
crashes but this is this is on another level. Uh, the temperatures are also crazy, um, I'll
put some footage over here now, so like, in the menus it hits above 96 degrees celsius on the CPU,
and after about two to three minutes of gaming both the graphics card and the CPU are well over
80 degrees celsius, so I'm not sure if the hard crashes are temperature related or not,
but there's there's definitely something weird going on so I'm gonna try a different game,
see what happens and then yeah, we'll take it from there! Now, in terms of stability,
let me quickly run you through the problems that I had after those first 4 hard crashes. After that,
I thought maybe it had something to do with the Nvidia Geforce experience screen capture thing.
Uh, so I played without that. It's still hard crashed to the desktop. After that, I DDU wiped
the drivers. Had a fresh driver installed on the system and while it would still crash, so,
in a total of about 30 to 40 minutes of trying to play battlefield 5 on the system, it crashed about
7 times. Which is it's quite a lot. After that, I moved over to GTA 5, where in about a 50-minute
session of gaming it, hard crashed to the desktop once. Um, after that I moved over to Fortnight,
where in a half-an-hour session, it was like a single battle royale run, it didn't crash once!
Although bear in mind with GTA 5 it took about 35 minutes for the crash to happen.
Next up, I moved over to Escape from Tarkov, which in an hour and a half gaming session crashed to
the desktop. Once again, bear in mind crashing to the desktop is pretty much a feature of Escape
from Tarkov at this point. So yeah, I, I, don't know how much that really means in terms of actual
system stability. However, considering the fact that I haven't yet been able to specifically
identify what's been causing the crashes, we can give it the benefit of the doubt and put it down
to like software demonic possession or whatever. Other than that, the gaming temperatures were
pretty wild. The graphics card does that very fun OEM pre-built thing of sitting at like 83
degrees celsius. It doesn't quite reduce its boost frequency yet due to temperature but it's, it's,
just right on that line. And like I mentioned earlier, the CPU was playing jump rope with
mid to high 80s and low 90s. That's like OEM intel crap-cooler level hot. Although it was a
bit quieter than those coolers, which may just be due to the fact that the fan on the cooler
can't spin fast enough to conjure up a banshee howl. In terms of gaming frame rate, it is fine,
although I was kind of expecting slightly higher frame rates, considering we were gaming at 1080p
with an RTX 2060. But anyway, long story short, if you already have one of these, or you're looking
to buy one. I would probably factor in getting a better CPU cooler. It doesn't have to be anything
fancy and it should be pretty straightforward to install it on there. Let me know if you want
me to do a follow-up video, where I fix up this system. And then finally, in terms of the Windows
activation thing, I made a Youtube story talking about how the Windows wasn't activated on it,
and then somebody who had bought an ABS system before, said that they don't activate windows on
any of the systems. You have to contact support and then they give you like a command prompt.
Command to put in and then it gives you your key. It's a bit weird. I've never seen that before.
Other than those things though, the system is fine I guess. Although it doesn't really have
many advantages over like an OEM hotbox. It's just an SI hotbox. The only real advantage that it has
over like a DELL or an HP system is the the parts are all custom. So you can upgrade them more
easily. Oh, it also has much less bloatware on it than an OEM system, but then it still has the soul
of Alma in it, which kind of makes me think it's not because of the bloatware... but that brings
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