How Much Does it Cost?
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2700X – £184.97
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 (1x 16GB) – £60.10
- Hard Drive: 1TB Seagate Barracuda £49.91 + Corsair Force MP510 480GB M.2 – £85.98
- GPU: Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2070 – £384.99
- Power Supply: Corsair CV650 – £83
- Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550M-K – £133.98
- WiFi: 11N 300Mbps PCIe Card – £16.99
- Operating System: Windows 10 Home – £69.00
- Case: Custom – £69.99 Estimate for similar
Self-build price – Approx £1138.91 AlphaSync Price – £949.98 (down from £1099.98 at launch).
Overview
Once again AlphaSync has proven that they can make an affordable and competitive gaming PC. However, they’ve been able to do it MUCH cheaper than you could possibly build it yourself. Keep in mind, hardware prices have dropped a little recently, and they’re still smashing it. It’s almost £200 cheaper than a self-build. They throw in an expert assembly, great cable routing, a custom RGB case, and a brilliant whole system warranty. Plus, they have PSUs, self-building is tough right now given their all bloody sold out.
Gaming Performance
For 1080p gamers, you’ve certainly nothing to worry about here. An RTX 2070 makes light work of even the most demanding games at this resolution. You’ll even get away with higher refresh rate displays too.
For 1440p gaming medium and high settings on the latest games will have you sitting above 60 FPS easily enough. More CPU intensive games light flight simulator 2020 may struggle though, but that’s no big surprise, it’s a hard game to run well.
4K gaming is still an option, but expect to use medium settings, or DLSS to get you to a good frame rate. However, I’d suggest a step up to an RTX 2080 build for optimal performance here.
Day to Day
For your typical gaming PC, it’s no slouch. However, the addition of a decent SSD boot drive makes it pretty responsive for daily tasks. A bit of light video editing, photoshop and more should prove no issue, and the 8-core 16-thread 2700X packs a good punch despite being on the market for a while now. With 16GB of RAM it’s not too bad either, but you have three available slots to upgrade that in the future if you so desire.
Should I Buy One?
Hardware prices are good right now, but even still, AlphaSync is managing to beat the self-build price quite well. Even if you get a Windows 10 code from the grey market sites, it’ll still prove more expensive. Plus, the peace of mind from a full system warranty and assembly are welcome additions. It’s just plug, play, and play some more.
