Azerty Xenith Extreme iCUE Powered by ASUS
HP Omen 45L GT22-1120nd
Paradigit x MSI Gamer Zeus
Azerty Xenith Extreme iCUE Powered by ASUS
The Azerty We are also fans of the large and fast SSD, the neat cable management and the clean Windows installation. We have managed to find some small areas for improvement, but in general Azerty makes sensible choices. And with a warranty period of no less than four years, we think the price is certainly reasonable.
HP Omen 45L GT22-1120nd
The HP Omen 45L GT22-1120nd mainly depends on its price. For the suggested retail price of 2899 euros, it does not perform sufficiently, especially if you take into account the questionable choices, such as installing a traditional hard drive as secondary storage and omitting USB-C on the front. At the time of writing, it is available from 2299 euros and the price-performance ratio is very good. Therefore, you can easily overlook the mediocre cable management and the presence of some bloatware.
Paradigit x MSI Gamer Zeus
The cable management of the Paradigit x MSI Gamer Zeus is at least as good as Azerty and although the warranty is a year shorter, three years is still above average. Choosing an Intel Core i7 CPU leads to excellent multithreaded performance, which is useful if you also use your PC for more computing-intensive tasks than gaming. And the RTX 4080 GPU is a bit faster than the AMD RX 7900 XTX from Azerty’s PC, especially if you enable ray tracing. In our opinion, the negatives are more serious; the CPU cooler is not good enough and the chosen SSD is very slow. Finally, we find the system unnecessarily noisy when idle, although fortunately the noise production remains under control under load.
Prebuilt PCs were a joke for the seasoned tweaker for a long time, but the days of proprietary connections, single-channel memory and the hard drive as the only storage medium are behind us. Pre-built PCs are becoming an increasingly better alternative for those who do not have the desire, time or knowledge to build a PC themselves, but who provides the most convincing configuration?
In this review we pit three prebuilt gaming PCs against each other and against the systems from the latest Desktop Best Buy Guide, as several community members suggested in the previous comparison of prebuilts. We look at the PCs from the outside and inside, benchmark performance and measure temperatures, power consumption and noise production. We also compare the purchase price of the PC with that of a self-build system that is as comparable as possible.
Of the traditional OEMs, we found only HP willing to send in a test sample; the manufacturer supplied a desktop from its Omen gaming series. In addition, we have two ‘combination participants’: PC component manufacturers who work together with a local store to put together a system with as many products from their brand as possible. ASUS sought cooperation with Azerty, which recently won the bronze Tweakers Award for online stores, while MSI has its system assembled by Paradigit.
We asked these and other PC manufacturers to provide a gaming PC that uses the latest generations of CPUs (Intel 13th/14th Gen Core or AMD Ryzen 7000) and GPUs (Nvidia RTX 4000 or AMD RX 7000), and that ranges between costs 2000 and 3000 euros. Even in 2023, you can still put together a very nice gaming PC for that.
2023-11-03 05:00:00
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