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1.0 out of 5 starsSmall, quiet, powerful, cooling is horrible, not worth the money EDITED
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2022
Initial boot impressions, overall, are quite good. It's 100% quiet when you boot up, no mechanical nose at all. Runs games and applications at max settings. The downside, initially is it does NOT have an aggressive fan setting for the RTX 3080 and on testing it was raising up to 96c and pumping out some crazy heat. If you install MSI Afterburner and give it a fairly aggressive fan profile it stays under 75c.
It's a great little system, but be warned, do NOT max current games settings unless you run an aggressive fan profile, it will get way, WAY too hot, didn't even notice any throttling.
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And after just a few days of using it, it constantly pushes up to 100c or higher CPU temps on over half the core causing severe throttling
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I have since replaced the top exhaust fan with a 3k RPM fan and I have undervolted the core along with additional offsets while still maintaining best performance. After many tweaks with outside software and new some new hardware the system can NOW run everything at it's highest settings without overheating.
In closing? Don't get this. For it's price they should have been way more thorough with their cooling solutions.
. For this price I'm disappointed beyond words. Will never purchase from them again.
