Bought this on sale for $1000 on Newegg and for a i7 6700K, GTX 1070, with 16GB RAM not a bad deal. It's a very compact SFF system at only 10L but the design at best is polarizing and just changing the green mesh to black would have gone a long way in subduing the outlandish looking PC. The PC is mainly plastic and has two top flaps that open when the PC gets hot and needs to vent. Cool in theory, but this PC was far from that since the CPU and GPU at clock speeds would hit 80-82 degrees while gaming at 1440P. Also the system was very loud while under load and sounded like two hairdryers on blast and probably put out similar heats levels. The GT's bottom is ever so slightly raised and has small slots and hopes of circulating air, but unfortunately the computer's small lift is basically useless. So how did they get such a powerful PC so small? Well Gigabyte did have to use a custom motherboard which makes upgrading it down the line impossible and the system uses SO-DIMM memory. I think in concept a 10L powerful PC is awesome but Gigabyte has to greatly improve their heat and noise, otherwise I highly recommend the Corsair One which is fully liquid cooled and the same size
As a package, it's not bad. Looking forward to hearing what the price will be. While I'm glad that the GPU card is easily up-gradable, it's also interesting that the unit's motherboard has a CPU socket instead of surface-mount to allow for CPU upgrades later. The design of the case is not too garish, but it would have been nice to have a stealthier "simple black box" version too. Very surprised at the inclusion of a DVI cable. These days, is it even needed? Why not provide a right-angle DP or Mini-DP adapter cable to allow someone to connect their own DP to DVI adapter if they really needed it?
Bought this on sale for $1000 on Newegg and for a i7 6700K, GTX 1070, with 16GB RAM not a bad deal. It's a very compact SFF system at only 10L but the design at best is polarizing and just changing the green mesh to black would have gone a long way in subduing the outlandish looking PC. The PC is mainly plastic and has two top flaps that open when the PC gets hot and needs to vent. Cool in theory, but this PC was far from that since the CPU and GPU at clock speeds would hit 80-82 degrees while gaming at 1440P. Also the system was very loud while under load and sounded like two hairdryers on blast and probably put out similar heats levels. The GT's bottom is ever so slightly raised and has small slots and hopes of circulating air, but unfortunately the computer's small lift is basically useless. So how did they get such a powerful PC so small? Well Gigabyte did have to use a custom motherboard which makes upgrading it down the line impossible and the system uses SO-DIMM memory. I think in concept a 10L powerful PC is awesome but Gigabyte has to greatly improve their heat and noise, otherwise I highly recommend the Corsair One which is fully liquid cooled and the same size
As a package, it's not bad. Looking forward to hearing what the price will be. While I'm glad that the GPU card is easily up-gradable, it's also interesting that the unit's motherboard has a CPU socket instead of surface-mount to allow for CPU upgrades later.
The design of the case is not too garish, but it would have been nice to have a stealthier "simple black box" version too.
Very surprised at the inclusion of a DVI cable. These days, is it even needed? Why not provide a right-angle DP or Mini-DP adapter cable to allow someone to connect their own DP to DVI adapter if they really needed it?