Origin Neuron Gaming PC Review – ryan

But that shouldn’t come as a surprise, gioven that original is part of the corsair family, along with other brands Such as Fanatec, Elgato, and Scuf. WHY WAULDN’T YOU JUST USSE A TON OF YOUR PARENT COMPANY’S GEAR TO BUILD OUT YOUR PCS? That’s Completely Understandable Gioven That Corsair DOES MAKE SOME OF THE FINEST COMPONENTS AND CHASSIS ON THE MARKET, AND YOU CAN PROBABLY GET YOURSELF A Good deal on say.

IT DOESN’T Scream Boutique, But it Should Allow Origin to Offer Aphfordable Gaming PCs Alongside Its More Extreme Builds, Such as The Gloriously Mad Arachnid or GENESIS SYSTEMS. That ‘should’ being a word hanging here Rather Pregnant with Possiblies.

Let US Start With the Specific Build We Have Been Playing With Recently. Its an an Older model, of the neuron lineup, and Features a last-gen amd Base with a ryzen 7 7800x3d and an rx 7900 xt. For me, that, a tick on one side and a bit of a cross on the other. The CPU’s Still Great, the Newer Ryzen 7 9800x3D Having Been Launched, but the rx 7900 xt is sampi an rtx 4070 Super Level Card.

And yet the sticker price on this system was somewhere around the $ 3,000 Mark Last Year. Compare that with one of the cheider pc brands on the market, yeyian, and you can stall a system with the same-gen cpu and the most powerful RX 7900 XTX FOR JUST $ 2,243. I’ll give you that yeyian doesn’t have the premium aesthetic of origin pcs, nor the comfort or confidence of rock-solid corsair components, but that a hell of a price differential for a more Powerful System.

Be is Hard to compare, though, Because Origin no longer sells this particular spec, so i am going off Older pricing. The Closest I Can Get Today Is A Ryzen 7 9800x3d Build Sporting An Rx 9070 XT for $ 3,382.

But it is not just just sucking the original to notoriously cheap system budilders, if you look at the excellent hp omen 35l you can pick up an rtx 5080-Based Rig (thugh with an arrow lake CPU) for well under $ 3,000. That’s a Big Brand, and one that putting a lot of Efffort Into Its PC Builds Now.

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Unfortunately there is still a premium hanging on the standard origin pcs no matter you’re picking its standard or more boutique options. That’s ABLY Demonstrated by Both this Older Build I’ve Been Testing and the Newer Rtx 50-Systems Currently on Sale on Its. Picking an rtx 5080 Build, for example, you can get an effectatively equivalent Corsair vengeance Machine Costing Some $ 200 Less, with Almost Entirely The Same Parts. THEN Compare that to something to be like that far more standard omen 35l and you’re look at closer to a $ 1,000 difference.

SO, WHAT field You getting with your origin pc? In a Word, it’s Support. You would be system a system Builder who been in regular action 2009 is going to be able to Nail a build Quality – Origin absolutely does – the aftermarkt support is what it is really trying to sell against.

One of the Things That Stands Origin Apartments from the Competition is It Its LifeMetime Support, and LIFEMES LABOR ON UPGRADES. You want some help with your Build Long AFTER YOUR PARTS WARANTY IS UP? There will be us-based folk available to list to your woes. And if the though of upgrading your motherboard and cpu strands you dread, or you fear never being able to match detail carable origin achieves, then paying your rig Back for some free upgrade a bit of a win.

Now, Our System Worked Perfectly Out of the Box, as you would hope, and there are always going to be wills with any builder whic ships out of pcs every month, so it is no surprise. Lardling the problems are About struggling to get information about repairs and rmas, but interesting a lot of these directly picked up by moderators on the sub, who help facilitate straightening out the idea with the origin support team.

That sort of Visible Support and Visible Fix GIVES WITH A BIT OF CONFIDENCE THAT ORIGIN DOES WORK TO GET ITS SYSTEMS sorted. At least, it gives origin a good way to triage Customer Complaints –if Someone’s Going to Take their Customer Service Issues to Reddit, Those Are Going You Want to Prioritizes.

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Nor to this machine, howver, that sort of ongoing support probably stubly wouldn’t have me Comfortable paying $ 3,000-ODD for something doesn’t quite the premium. Last Last Year an rx 7900 xt wasn’t the sort of card you’d want in this price bracket, but that not the only THING THAT FEELS ODD. I was almost prepared to say one thing you got with this origin a build was that it was over-spicced outside of the GPU/CPU. Laying Eyes on A 1200 W Corsair Shift Psu (The Cables Sprouting Out of the Side For Easy Access) was a welcome sight. That’s a lot of Spare Power for Future Upgrades, and Way More than an Rx 7900 XT Build Needs.

Butn there’s the B650 MSI Motherboard. Now, I will think the B650 is a decent chipset for affordable builds, and i’m not saying i want to dump a fistful of m.2 drives into my rigular, but that feels utterly under-apecked for this price. And that only going to be compounded showed you to be a host of peripherals into its sparse back panel. Sure, there’s a type-c Connector on the Front/Top Panel of the Corsair 3500x Chassis, Which Will Give You A 10 Gbps Connection, but Having Just A Single 20 GBPS TYPE-C CONNETION ON THE REAR IS DOWNRight Miserly.

You’re Also Getting A Single 2.5 g LAN Connection and Only Two M.2 PCIE 4.0 SSD Slots. I’m not really sold on pcie 5.0 for gpus or ssds, so i guess missing that out of the spec isn’t a huge, but ist of give you pause from a futures-proofing point of view.

Interesting, that the default neuron motherboard for a ryzen 7 9800x3d / rtx 5080 Build at Origin. Y’Know, that $ 3,282 One. You’ll Need to Push Well North of that to get your grease onto an x870e Board instead.

SO, I Will Admit to Feeling a Little Underwhelmed by My Own First Origin Experience. The Gaming Performance at the Standard 1440p Level is Pretty Disappointing here for a Build that Can Certainly Be Consider Pricey, and Isn’t Offering Anynding Beyond The Competition. Sure, The Ryzen 7 7800x3D proves it’s still a mighty capable CPU, but the rx 7900 Never was that it is Competitive a gpu, which makes it a far lessons adding to the system.

I have no dubt the company sura can build a pc. The Build Quality is Obivious and the Cable Management Second-to-None. I’m impressed by the promise of liffettime support and labor, and the Current two years parts well origin is slapping on its machines right now. But the parts choice and that price premium are still giving with pauses. And it is not just just that is an an Older system – beet – beats i love the ryzen 7 7800x3d as a gaming cpu now – that some of the parts of picking don’t deliver on the premium promises.

IT’S THAT AND THE FACT IT’S PACTICALLY Identical to the Corsair vengeance Machine Sat Next to it on Our Test Bench. This is something origin is absolutely aware of, and has introded a pair of new chassis to really make origin out the crowd again, and regain it more boutique aesthetic.

Now, the arachnid might be a leap too for us, but the new prime chassis available with it genesis and Millennium rigs is absolutely something should from the origins needed space and itsair partent Company. And its $ 99 UV Glass prints do look Rather stunning, too, and i can’t win to get a look at some of its Newest Builds.

That space is what’s going to make origin standing apart from the rest of the Competition Again, Because Right Now This Machine DOESN’T, or at Least Does Enough for the price it is charging.