An ALL-AMD Gaming PC from DELL??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,387 words · ~6 min read
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there's been so much buzz around how finally after four long years AMD is
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able to challenge Intel once again but
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the launch of ryzen was less baby bottom smooth and more teen that
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meant well but still managed to bend the civic into a hedge
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pc enthusiasts were willing to trust
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that AMD would iron out the wrinkles in short order but ryzen wasn't quite ready
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for the average consumer you know folks who think when a computer fails to post
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it means that it got lost in the mail but good news everyone
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the unruly teen has grown up donned a
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suit and gotten a job verizon is now
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available in dells
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g skills km 780r mechanical keyboard features a brushed aluminum top plate on
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the fly macro recording and various cherry mx keyswitch configurations learn
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more at the link below
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now you can say what you want about your past experiences with dell but the fact
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is they validate their computers in a different way than individual component
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manufacturers for instance when ASUS makes a motherboard that is compatible
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with ryzen you can trust that the motherboard will
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be good but they only validate the motherboard
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not every possible graphics card SSD RAM
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stick etc that you could possibly stick in it
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what dell sells is the experience as a
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whole now you might be sitting there thinking
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well that's nice but i'm just going to build my own system anyway but consider
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this dell the third largest oem pc producer
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in the world sold more than 10 times as
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many systems as AMD sold graphics cards
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last year and when you consider that you'll understand why
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complete system sales is the way forward
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for AMD to win back some real market share from team blue but only if that
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complete experience is any good so is it
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actually it's not bad i'm not a hundred percent sold on the looks the blue
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venting on the side is a slightly weird contrast with the boring business
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aesthetic of the rest of the case but i wouldn't call it offensive
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especially because functionally it's pretty darn good front i o is ample with
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type a usb 2 and usb 3 including a quick
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charge port for your phone or tablet and a fifth usb of the type c variety even
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the sd card reader is high speed which is a nice touch and at the back you'll
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find everything you need for a bunch of peripherals or vr gear and analog
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surround speaker setup and even your model m keyboard and ball mouse if
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you're into that sort of thing also the plastic removing experience was one of
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the best we've had in a long time
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moving inside then our build out of the inspiron gaming
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5675 includes a hard drive with no SSD so the
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os is about as responsive and sprightly as my nan
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but the good news there is that the motherboard is surprisingly fully
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featured so upgrading down the line is a legitimate option
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it's a shorter matx board and only two
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memory slots is a bit of a downer but it's got dual pci express 16x slots with
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adequate spacing and support for crossfire with a third card in between
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it rocks two m.2 slots and a whole whack
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of SATA ports for all the storage you could reasonably expect to fit in a mid
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tower especially if you're willing to get a little creative about drive
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mounting and thanks to the am4 socket our ryzen 5 1400 could be replaced with
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a 1700x or more giving us up to twice
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the core count or even potentially better cpus in the future depending on
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AMD and dell's support of this socket moving forward
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so the functionality is good but if we're being honest i think dell could do
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better when it comes to cable management the overall layout is much better than
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older dell systems that i've had the misfortune of upgrading including some
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nice touches like room for a much larger power supply standard atx to boot if the
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included 460 watt one isn't enough along
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with adequate space for full length graphics cards and even a holder for the
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back of the graphics card to prevent that smelly guy two seats down at a lan
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party from stealing it or actually on second thought it
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probably has more to do with those guys in the brown shorts
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gaming wise it's about perfectly specked out for 1080p 60fps gaming performing
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admirably in everything that we threw at it it's certainly vr capable and managed
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a solid 60 frames per second in modern
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aaa titles on high slightly older aaa
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games can even get the ultra treatment and if you're only playing esports
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titles you could even consider an investment into a high refresh rate
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display the only issue we had was occasional
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stuttering when 3d assets loaded in late
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thanks to the molasses speed hard drive vroom vroom so again
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get an SSD under full load the CPU
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stayed suspiciously cool at less than 40 degrees so i do wonder if dell is
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reading the temperature offset correctly about 60 would make more sense with this
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cooling solution and as for the GPU it ran a little hotter than we'd like over
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80 degrees but this is more the fault of AMD's underwhelming reference cooler
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design since it's sitting right beside an open air vent the single exhaust fan
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is unexceptional but adequately handled our
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single graphics card configuration and features anti-vibration mounts and
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overall the inspiron gaming wasn't distracting on the desk and was almost
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inaudible when we placed it on the floor though with that said cleaning will be
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important for keeping thermals and acoustics consistent over time because
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with no dust filters and a lot of openings it's not going to take long to
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grow fur in a carpeted room but besides
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gaming what can it be used for with only eight gigs of RAM
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not that much but with another stick it would be suitable for applications like
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photo editing or light video editing and most other general productivity tasks
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value-wise i've got to give full marks to both dell and AMD the cost to build
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an equivalent system even using non-mining craze prices for the rx 580
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was 915 bucks and ours came in at 950.
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you lose out on some enthusiast stuff like better overclocking support but for
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folks who weren't going to do that anyway 35 dollars is a pretty compelling
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value for a functional if kind of crappy keyboard and mouse assembly service and
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a full system warranty so our hope is that dell can pop out
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heaps of these systems so that AMD gets the cash flow going to continue
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improving ryzen and continue stirring up
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