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Review on ๐Ÿ’ป iBUYPOWER Pro Gaming PC Desktop Trace 4 MR 182A (Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz, AMD RX 560 2GB, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 240GB SSD, WiFi Enabled, Windows 10 Home) by Mike Burnett

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great processor and graphics card to start upgrading right away. Need to update almost immediately

Very good processor and graphics card for the price, actually the lowest finished system with this combination I could find at the time of the review. The case is great for airflow and the filters on the vents. This is the framework for the best gaming system, but the MB will need replacing almost immediately. My last build was over 10 years old (haven't used it in 8 years) so I had an overhaul and just kept my 10 year old future proof PSU. Pros: - VC is good enough. -> comes with ASRock RX5500XT 4G - great processor -> comes with Ryzen 3600 - case layout and components are no frills but very well designed, no name but lots of RGB (too much for an adult) Cons: - no motherboard box ASRock The A320 board showed a contact temperature (I don't think VRM could locate it) of 120 degrees C (115-121) using several hardware monitoring programs. Had to replace the MB to avoid fire (chips burn out quickly at these temperatures, normally rated for 5 years at 100C, at 121C the Arrhenius equation tells you you'll probably have problems soon). I replaced AORUS with X570, all temperatures are below 50 degrees including VRM. CPU fan sucked out of the box - the included CPU fan was a nameless cheap gadget, noisy and poorly cooling 50-75 degrees C all the time. Too bad it doesn't come with AMD Wraith. Replaced by CM 212 from MX-4, now works on 26-50. The power supply was High Power 500W. I replaced it with an old Corsair TX850W from ten years ago. My first thought when troubleshooting Hot WB was that the power supply is defective. - Ram ADATA 8G 2333 with a stick out of the box. It's a waste of CPU and GPU resources to run it without dual channel -> have 2x16g Team Dark Z 3200 instead. Worked much smoother.

Pros
  • Availability
Cons
  • Really don't like it, everything is fine