Recently, I have finished my most recent PC Build, which I will be calling the “Era” PC. Which I feel has a lot of Overclocking potential. I bought all the parts for a pretty decent price, although not at a flipped price, all the parts are new. I was able to install an SSD that I had lying around which has around 480 GB, and is a SATA based system, so it saved me a couple dollars.
Although 480GB is not the most sufficient compared to a lot of M.2, 1 TB models it is sufficient for many mainstream programs that we use in our daily lives at an adequate performance, and fast run time. Generally, the PC does run smoothly under certain sandbox, or graphic intensive games. The 1660 GTX, and be quiet! Dark Rock Pro Cooler do a very good job at regulating a nice gaming experience, and overall quality with the silent system.
When I finished the build I did notice that the DIMM1 slot was blocked by the cooler, which I may have underestimated the size of it. So unfortunately the DDR4 16GB 3200 MHz Corsair RAM is how it is, it cannot be upgraded. So the slots the RAM occupy are DIMMA2 and DIMMB2.
In the meanwhile I also installed a WI-FI card just to get the Ethernet setup in the meanwhile. I installed the card with Three antennas. A relatively solid internet connection, although I need to still configure it. The motherboard I had bought, an MSI Z490-A Pro does not have embedded wifi in it.
When I started up the PC through a USB ISO installation of Windows 10 Home edition, I noticed the display performance, even with nothing on the PC was very laggy. I believe there are a lot of reasons to this but I still tried every solution to potentially fix the issue. Keep in mind, the 6-core, 5GHz i5 CPU is the best we are getting from the motherboard, with the 480GB SSD, but at the same time we also have the 1660 GTX TI, a fairly decent graphics card with the 16GB, 3200 MHz speed RAM sticks. So in the aftermath, I did see some potential bottleneck for certain parts, but for my first PC Build, it isn’t the worst.
Like I said before, we still have a lot of overclocking potential based on the format the CPU cooler, and the amount of power it exerts throughout the PC. I installed a WIFI adapter, specifically an ASUS AC-68 3×3 WI-FI adapter which is not ideal, but it is what I had lying around. Compared to an AX, which I could’ve maybe bought. This then enabled the NVIDIA control panel which instantly boosted the performance of my PC from moderately laggy to instantly smooth, as soon as the NVIDIA Control Panel was then implemented.
Out of curiosity I took some benchmark tests, with both single and multi core tests, and the result were pretty amazing if we really understand the capabilities, and how effective the cooling system is. On the multicore test the i5 10600k CPU, it placed in 5th place with a score of 8934, just shy of the Intel Core i9-9880H CPU. it even outperformed the Intel Xeon E5-2697, and the X5650, both of which are generally high value CPU’s on the market. The single core test gave us a score of 1267 points. But then again, they are also 2.66 GHz and 2.7 GHz, but the i9 was 2.3 GHz, which I find interesting. This is all under the Windows 10 64-bit architecture.
Overall, I enjoy the final product, and it is a very silent, and smooth machine, and I do think the overclocking capabilities are very much there, especially if I can utilize the CPU PWR 2 port, but it is not entirely necessary. It is even more silent than my current main PC, which has a regular cooler compared to a be quiet! or Passive CPU Cooler. Installation of the cooler was a bit difficult, but I got it in considering it took a lot of space, it did take up some room.
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