if you're the kind of ultra gamer who's logged more hours in halflife than in
real life then the words allinone PC
will probably make your eyeballs roll out of your head and straight out the
front door I mean come on fellas aios
may be great for your photography business but clearly other Allin ones
don't have all you would need if you're
a gamer well blow the dust bunnies off
those baby blues my friends because the digital storm Aura is a 34in curved
ultrawide AIO with a freaking GTX 1080
inside
it the GMM keyboard features Cherry
Gaton and kale hot able switches with a floating key cap design RGB lighting and
minimalistic style check it out now at the link below kicking things off the
aura is seriously heavy duty like all of
digital Storm's custom machines it's a low volume built to order product which
explains why the thin bezel is anodized
aluminum rather than your usual mass production plastic and also why some of
the finishing touches are perhaps a little less finished the 34-in display
is mounted on a rugged AF stand that does offer a generous amount of tilt
freedom but unfortunately only stays at
a fixed height which given the height
disparities found among humans even just within our office is sort of a drag I
get it the machine's heavy but it's still unfortunate that a $3,000 computer
doesn't include a more featur stand causing some of our more vertic
challenged staff to seek out creative aftermarket Solutions since you can't
even fix this with the good old textbook trick thanks to the ARA's long legs and
35b heft though now that I think about
it is that weight even really unreasonable that's only 12 lb more than
the Acer Predator x34 and that's just a
monitor not to mention that the other dimensions impressively are nearly
identical except for the ARA's extra
inch of depth and speaking from
experience it wouldn't surprise me if uh
that extra inch was enough to make a lot of magic happen working past then the 11
screws that hold the back panel on we find an entire ball ass gaming rig worth
of Parts frankensteined into that extra
inch on the back of a Samsung panel
seriously this thing is like a a crazy
science experiment gone horribly right
there's even two separate power supplies with like this weirdo janky power
splitter in here I mean what else is crammed in this thing our units got 16
gigs of 2666 MHz ddr4 RAM on a standard
Mini ITX standard MSI z270 Motherboard
upgradeability my friends crazy it rocks
an Intel Core i7 7700 K kbl Lake
processor that's cooled by what looks to my eye like a custom 160 MMX 35mm
acitech all-in-one liquid cooling system
not too shabby it's got a 1 TB hard
drive as well as a 480 gig SATA 3 SSD
NVMe m.2 equipped models are also
available and of course finally the
pesta resistance a full-sized GTX 1080
Founders Edition graphics card which uh
has its display outputs actually looped
back into the monitor Tim Taylor style
to a separate PCB that runs the display
and the crummy onboard speakers the fact that this rig is built
with mostly off-the-shelf Parts gives it
that Franken Stein feel but it also
gives it some distinct advantages it's completely upgradeable as long as your
new parts would fit your new parts could
sit and if I mean assuming you don't
want to use it as a computer forever you could even just use it as an ultra wide
monitor this thing has all the io of a
full conventional desktop setup the
monitor itself has all the usual display in Port
though it does lack an OSD the graphics cards outputs are all there and easy to
reach all the motherboard ports are here including USB 3.1 10 gig in both type A
and type c flavors though it should be noted those are significantly more
difficult to reach and it's even got decent front IO with a side located SD
USB and set of audio jacks and this is
cool up on the top there's even an extra USB port for uh you know a webcam or an
anti-air missile defense system whatever you
prefer but can all this stuff crammed
together under a plastic covering stay
cool under load well the answer is
shockingly yes yes it can we used Ida 64
and furmark to simultaneously tax the
CPU and the GPU n either of which
throttled instead leveling off at 70°
and 85° respectively with most of the
components hovering around 50° heat gets
dissipated through the perforations on the top and back of the chassis and the
warmest feeling area is actually beneath the motherboard plate which is perfect
by the way for keeping your nachos warm during extended raiding sessions the
aura does start humming underload however adding about 20 DB to the rooms
ambient noise in our testing though it should be noted that this is about what
I would expect from having a you know thoughtfully assembled gaming rig 2 feet
in front of my face and still way quieter than the HP wave uh ocean
simulator if you don't dig synthetic tests we threw some real games at it as
well running all of our benchmarks at the native 3440 by 1440 resolution and
then again at 1080p for comparison's sake as a expected the 60hz 3000r curved
ultrawide IPS display is awesome to game
on with great contrast and viewing angles but it doesn't have gsync and
frankly the colors are way off so
without a calibrator this one's not really recommended for our friends who
are Gamers by night and graphic designers or photographers by day so is
it better then to buy a fancy pants Monitor and a separate gaming rig or to
save space with an all-in-one like the aura I mean now that small formfactor
PCS are becoming more and more popular you could make the argument that you're
not saving that much space but very few
of them are dedicated gaming Rigs and
even the ones that are like the MSI
Trident aren't necessarily upgradeable
thanks to the use of proprietary components in fact even some of the ones
that are advertises upgradable like the Corsair one void your warranty if you
have the audacity to pop the hood so
then if you're looking for the ultimate
Trifecta of desk space performance and
future proofness and you've got the cash
to back up your search then uh accept no
substitutes because this thing is lit as
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