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**NZXT Entry-Level Build System Review: A Compromise in Gaming Performance**

I recently had the opportunity to review the NZXT entry-level build system, which I was excited to see how it would perform. As expected, the system came with a previous gen i3 processor and a GTX 1650 graphics card, both of which are reasonably questionable components.

However, I did find the whole NZXT XMP break up situation really weird, especially when it comes to the RAM configuration. They have a single 8GB stick of RAM in there, which I really feel like a broken record on these pre-built videos - "just stop doing that" if you have to use eight gigs of RAM in a system, just use two four gig sticks dual channels.

But enough about that, let's discuss the component selection in this build. Initially, on paper, I was like "oh, that's not ideal," we've got a previous gen i3 mixed with the GTX 1650, both of which are reasonably questionable components. However, I think there are a couple of reasons NZXT went with this configuration.

The first one is they sacrificed a bit on gaming performance to be able to get just better base components like a decent motherboard and a decent power supply, which is great - it means that every time you turn the system on, you don't have to worry about accidentally taking down Kazakhstan's power grid or whatever right. So, it's going to be more reliable.

They've also got decent cooling on the components as well, which is great. It's a quiet system, and everything sits at mid 50s while gaming, which is really good. And then there's the fact that they included an SSD of a reasonable size at this price point - that's a huge deal. Even the $1,100 Alienware system didn't have that in it.

Using that Alienware system on the desktop is a little bit like pushing bamboo under your fingernails, whereas this one I'd happily live with as a daily driver just because of the SSD that little thing makes such a big difference.

Now, you may be thinking that I get it - they sacrificed gaming performance to get a better base system. But they could have chosen better value for money parts in the price categories of the components that they chose instead of an i3 getting like a 3100 Ryzen cpu and instead of a GTX 1650 getting an RX 570.

I actually asked the NZXT rep that exact question, and his response actually made quite a bit of sense. Availability is a big issue as we all know - the 3100 is a better price to performance component than the 9100, and the motherboards and stuff are cheaper as well. But that cpu is like a fickle unicorn beast that's only intermittently in stock anywhere.

Unfortunately for a pre-built manufacturer, availability outweighs price to performance, and that's why we've got this system spec here. And I actually do agree with the compromise that they struck because the gaming performance on this system for games that people actually play - like esports titles and Minecraft and Roblox and all of that stuff - it's perfectly adequate at 1080p.

And then you still get a good base system with future upgradeability options that isn't a potential fire hazard. Just bear in mind other pre-built manufacturers that follow this good base system approach to specking out their pre-built systems at this price point, you're still stuck with integrated Vega graphics as opposed to only a GTX 1650.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I think for $700, the NZXT entry-level build system strikes an interesting compromise for a pre-built system. It's not perfect, but it's a good starting point for someone who wants a reliable desktop system without breaking the bank.

If you liked this video, like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one. Do consider supporting me on Patreon - it helps me buy more random stuff to do videos on, and that's massively appreciated. And until the next video, bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enfor today's video i got my hands on the cheapest nzxt build pre-built it's part of the restructuring of their new starter lineup and it's a 700 system with some interesting design decisions that we'll get into in a little bit but before all of that for the sake of full disclosure nzxt did actually send me the system i didn't pay for it with my own money although there were no strings attached so if there's something wrong with it like it gives me i don't know stage three hemorrhoids i'm gonna tell you about it okay so let's see how the system is packaged that's always exciting oh that's foam that's really thick foam look at that that's awesome and then because of all that protective foam we have a very good condition normal case box oh already seeing what looks like good things through the back here and then here is the quick start and then here is the quick start guide that you get with the system just basically how to plug everything in i'm so sorry pc well i guess after that we're gonna find out how well that internal packing material actually works okay let's open it up and see how much damage i actually did to it there we go it's actually got all of the accessories in the case just like that uh i guess with the packing firm that's okay so with that let's look at the system now first things first and this is definitely we're gonna have to get our gary hats out here because the front usb 3 is not plugged in that's really not ideal although upon closer inspection you can see that the top two pins of the connector are actually damaged and i did hulk smash the pc out of its box so honestly it's probably my fault maybe when i dropped it the packaging inside the pc shifted and just like ripped the connector out other than that the cable management looks really good although you do have that m80x motherboard in a full atx case look which kind of reminds me of like a really tiny dude driving a ford f-350 let's have a look at the specs of this system which is a bit of a mixed bag first off we've got the h510 which is a case that i really like i actually use it for my editing rig and it's it's held up really well when looking at the inside of the system the first thing that i notice is the single 8 gig stick of ram and that really seems to be a theme with these pre-built systems why don't they just use two 4 gig sticks having dual channels so much better although this is an intel system so hopefully it's not going to affect the performance as badly as it did on that alienware system i did a video on recently when it comes to the speed of this ram it's going to be running at up to 3 000 megahertz now in reality what that means is you're going to be getting 2400 megahertz out of the box and you can enable xmp profiles to get it up to 3000 megahertz now personally i don't really understand why nzxt has an issue with running the ram at above 2400 megahertz out of the box because all of the prebuilts from like big oem manufacturers like dell and acer that i've looked at had their ram running at its rated speed straight out of the box like 26 60 megahertz or whatever the only thing that i can think of is maybe xmp and nzxt used to date and then xmp profiles dumped nzxt for like dow or hp or whatever and now all they can do is make awkward eye contact at parties but anyway moving on to the rest of the system as far as the cpu goes we've got an intel i3 9100f which is a four core four thread cpu it's not the greatest but at least they put a really good cooler on it so the temperatures are going to be cool and it's going to be nice and quiet and then as far as the graphics card goes we've got an msi ventus gtx 1650 in here we'll have a look at the performance of the system a bit later and then discuss this component selection there are however a couple of really good things about the specs of this pre-built the first one is the motherboard which is an msi b365m mortar which for a pre-built system at this price point is an amazing motherboard usually pre-built give you the motherboard equivalent of like a medium-sized head injury so that's great the other pretty big deal for this system is the fact that it's boot drive is a 500 gig nvme ssd that's amazing even the thousand one hundred dollar alienware pre-built only had a normal hard drive in it so yeah i'm really happy with that as far as the power supply goes we've got an evga br 450 in it which is an 80 plus bronze rated power supply it's fairly entry level but honestly in a pre-built if the power supply isn't going to give you diphtheria it's a really good thing as far as rear i o goes we've actually got two ps2 ports which is pretty cute and then we've got two usb 2 3 usb 3 a 3.1 type c we've got hdmi here as well and then an ethernet port with some audio connectors and then the graphics card gives us a dvi a displayport and hdmi and then we've also got some added wi-fi which is always a nice addition okay so with that let's put the side panel back on and see if it still turns on after david had a little whoopsie okay here's the moment of truth i've got it all plugged in let's see if i broke it and need to send a very apologetic message to nzxt i mean it's powering on let's see if we get a display output yes yes it's fine i wasn't worried at all i definitely wasn't planning on running away when it comes to the windows it's not been set up which is really nice i mean you can do your own windows setup now there are actually two pieces of software other than windows that come pre-installed on the system so that's a pretty big win when it comes to pre-built bloatware the first one is nzxt cam which i guess makes sense because it's an nzxt system and then the second one is geforce experience which will set up your graphics card drivers for you so that's pretty nice although i wish they got rid of the damn email login requirement for geforce experience i really hate this so hopefully one day nvidia will take this and shove it far up a hole of theirs so let's see what kind of gaming performance we get from this system as far as the gaming performance goes it's pretty much exactly in line with what you'd expect from a gtx 1650 most of the games are very playable at 1080p with a combination of medium to high settings here you can see battlefield 5 running this is at high settings and yeah it's very playable in fact it's a lot more playable than it was on that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system just because of how that hardware configuration crippled that pc the one percent lows on that system got down to 12 frames per second whereas on the gtx 1650 based uh build system we were getting a one percent low of 25 frames per second so that is a much more playable result although if i was playing multiplayer i'd probably drop it down to medium settings for for a higher frame rate when it comes to fortnite at 1080p competitive settings which is what i tested at now considering that every time i tested fortnite using epic settings i'd get some sweaty 14 year old telling me that like what kind of boomer plays fortnite at epic settings but yeah so at competitive settings you can get high refresh rate 1080p gaming performance out of this system uh so yeah if you're looking to play fortnite this will do that very well now when it comes to all of those performance benchmarks i did run this system in its out of the box configuration so that means the ram was running at 2400 megahertz as opposed to 3 000 megahertz no as i said earlier in the video i find the whole nzxt xmp break up situation really weird but when it comes to the ram configuration what i actually find more irritating is the fact that they have a single 8 gig stick of ram in there i really feel like a broken record on these pre-built videos like i'm always complaining about this but just stop doing that if you have to have eight gigs of ram in a system use two four gig sticks dual channels just better which brings me neatly to the discussion around the component selection in this build because initially on paper i was like oh that's not ideal we've got a previous gen i3 mixed with the gtx 1650 both of which are reasonably questionable components but i think there are a couple of reasons nzxt went with this configuration the first one is they sacrificed a bit on gaming performance to be able to get just better base components like a decent motherboard and a decent power supply which is great it means that every time you turn the system on you don't have to be worried about accidentally taking down kazakhstan's power grid or whatever right so it's going to be more reliable they've got decent cooling on the components as well which that's great as well it's it's a quiet system and everything sits at like mid 50s while gaming which is really good and then there's the fact that they included an ssd of a reasonable size at this price point that's a huge deal and even that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system didn't have that in and it makes just the day-to-day desktop usability of this system so much better using that alienware system on the desktop is a little bit like pushing bamboo under your fingernails whereas this one i'd happily live with as a daily driver just because of the ssd that little thing makes such a big difference now you may be thinking i get it they sacrificed gaming performance to get a better base system but they could have chosen better value for money parts in the price categories of the components that they chose instead of an i3 get like a 3100 ryzen cpu and instead of a gtx 1650 get an rx 570 now i asked the nzxt rep that exact question and his response actually made quite a bit of sense availability is a big issue as we all know the 3100 is a better price to performance component than the 9100 and the motherboards and stuff are cheaper as well but that cpu is like a fickle unicorn beast that's only intermittently in stock anywhere whereas the 9100f is everywhere the same thing goes for the gtx 1650 the availability of that part is so good i'm convinced there's like a geyser that just naturally produces them somewhere unfortunately for a pre-built manufacturer availability outweighs price to performance and that's why we've got this system spec here and i actually do agree with the compromise that they struck because the gaming performance on this system for games that people actually play like esports titles and minecraft and roblox and all of that stuff it's perfectly adequate at 1080p and then you still get a good base system with future upgradeability options that isn't a potential fire hazard just bear in mind other pre-built manufacturers that follow this good base system approach to specking out their pre-built at this price point you're still stuck with integrated vega graphics as opposed to only a gtx 1650. so with that let me know in the comment section below what you think of this entry level nzxt build system i think for 700 it strikes an interesting compromise for a pre-built system because yeah some 700 pre-built can be pretty janky so anyway if you liked the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one do consider supporting me on patreon it helps me buy more random stuff to do videos on and that's massively appreciated and until the next video byefor today's video i got my hands on the cheapest nzxt build pre-built it's part of the restructuring of their new starter lineup and it's a 700 system with some interesting design decisions that we'll get into in a little bit but before all of that for the sake of full disclosure nzxt did actually send me the system i didn't pay for it with my own money although there were no strings attached so if there's something wrong with it like it gives me i don't know stage three hemorrhoids i'm gonna tell you about it okay so let's see how the system is packaged that's always exciting oh that's foam that's really thick foam look at that that's awesome and then because of all that protective foam we have a very good condition normal case box oh already seeing what looks like good things through the back here and then here is the quick start and then here is the quick start guide that you get with the system just basically how to plug everything in i'm so sorry pc well i guess after that we're gonna find out how well that internal packing material actually works okay let's open it up and see how much damage i actually did to it there we go it's actually got all of the accessories in the case just like that uh i guess with the packing firm that's okay so with that let's look at the system now first things first and this is definitely we're gonna have to get our gary hats out here because the front usb 3 is not plugged in that's really not ideal although upon closer inspection you can see that the top two pins of the connector are actually damaged and i did hulk smash the pc out of its box so honestly it's probably my fault maybe when i dropped it the packaging inside the pc shifted and just like ripped the connector out other than that the cable management looks really good although you do have that m80x motherboard in a full atx case look which kind of reminds me of like a really tiny dude driving a ford f-350 let's have a look at the specs of this system which is a bit of a mixed bag first off we've got the h510 which is a case that i really like i actually use it for my editing rig and it's it's held up really well when looking at the inside of the system the first thing that i notice is the single 8 gig stick of ram and that really seems to be a theme with these pre-built systems why don't they just use two 4 gig sticks having dual channels so much better although this is an intel system so hopefully it's not going to affect the performance as badly as it did on that alienware system i did a video on recently when it comes to the speed of this ram it's going to be running at up to 3 000 megahertz now in reality what that means is you're going to be getting 2400 megahertz out of the box and you can enable xmp profiles to get it up to 3000 megahertz now personally i don't really understand why nzxt has an issue with running the ram at above 2400 megahertz out of the box because all of the prebuilts from like big oem manufacturers like dell and acer that i've looked at had their ram running at its rated speed straight out of the box like 26 60 megahertz or whatever the only thing that i can think of is maybe xmp and nzxt used to date and then xmp profiles dumped nzxt for like dow or hp or whatever and now all they can do is make awkward eye contact at parties but anyway moving on to the rest of the system as far as the cpu goes we've got an intel i3 9100f which is a four core four thread cpu it's not the greatest but at least they put a really good cooler on it so the temperatures are going to be cool and it's going to be nice and quiet and then as far as the graphics card goes we've got an msi ventus gtx 1650 in here we'll have a look at the performance of the system a bit later and then discuss this component selection there are however a couple of really good things about the specs of this pre-built the first one is the motherboard which is an msi b365m mortar which for a pre-built system at this price point is an amazing motherboard usually pre-built give you the motherboard equivalent of like a medium-sized head injury so that's great the other pretty big deal for this system is the fact that it's boot drive is a 500 gig nvme ssd that's amazing even the thousand one hundred dollar alienware pre-built only had a normal hard drive in it so yeah i'm really happy with that as far as the power supply goes we've got an evga br 450 in it which is an 80 plus bronze rated power supply it's fairly entry level but honestly in a pre-built if the power supply isn't going to give you diphtheria it's a really good thing as far as rear i o goes we've actually got two ps2 ports which is pretty cute and then we've got two usb 2 3 usb 3 a 3.1 type c we've got hdmi here as well and then an ethernet port with some audio connectors and then the graphics card gives us a dvi a displayport and hdmi and then we've also got some added wi-fi which is always a nice addition okay so with that let's put the side panel back on and see if it still turns on after david had a little whoopsie okay here's the moment of truth i've got it all plugged in let's see if i broke it and need to send a very apologetic message to nzxt i mean it's powering on let's see if we get a display output yes yes it's fine i wasn't worried at all i definitely wasn't planning on running away when it comes to the windows it's not been set up which is really nice i mean you can do your own windows setup now there are actually two pieces of software other than windows that come pre-installed on the system so that's a pretty big win when it comes to pre-built bloatware the first one is nzxt cam which i guess makes sense because it's an nzxt system and then the second one is geforce experience which will set up your graphics card drivers for you so that's pretty nice although i wish they got rid of the damn email login requirement for geforce experience i really hate this so hopefully one day nvidia will take this and shove it far up a hole of theirs so let's see what kind of gaming performance we get from this system as far as the gaming performance goes it's pretty much exactly in line with what you'd expect from a gtx 1650 most of the games are very playable at 1080p with a combination of medium to high settings here you can see battlefield 5 running this is at high settings and yeah it's very playable in fact it's a lot more playable than it was on that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system just because of how that hardware configuration crippled that pc the one percent lows on that system got down to 12 frames per second whereas on the gtx 1650 based uh build system we were getting a one percent low of 25 frames per second so that is a much more playable result although if i was playing multiplayer i'd probably drop it down to medium settings for for a higher frame rate when it comes to fortnite at 1080p competitive settings which is what i tested at now considering that every time i tested fortnite using epic settings i'd get some sweaty 14 year old telling me that like what kind of boomer plays fortnite at epic settings but yeah so at competitive settings you can get high refresh rate 1080p gaming performance out of this system uh so yeah if you're looking to play fortnite this will do that very well now when it comes to all of those performance benchmarks i did run this system in its out of the box configuration so that means the ram was running at 2400 megahertz as opposed to 3 000 megahertz no as i said earlier in the video i find the whole nzxt xmp break up situation really weird but when it comes to the ram configuration what i actually find more irritating is the fact that they have a single 8 gig stick of ram in there i really feel like a broken record on these pre-built videos like i'm always complaining about this but just stop doing that if you have to have eight gigs of ram in a system use two four gig sticks dual channels just better which brings me neatly to the discussion around the component selection in this build because initially on paper i was like oh that's not ideal we've got a previous gen i3 mixed with the gtx 1650 both of which are reasonably questionable components but i think there are a couple of reasons nzxt went with this configuration the first one is they sacrificed a bit on gaming performance to be able to get just better base components like a decent motherboard and a decent power supply which is great it means that every time you turn the system on you don't have to be worried about accidentally taking down kazakhstan's power grid or whatever right so it's going to be more reliable they've got decent cooling on the components as well which that's great as well it's it's a quiet system and everything sits at like mid 50s while gaming which is really good and then there's the fact that they included an ssd of a reasonable size at this price point that's a huge deal and even that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system didn't have that in and it makes just the day-to-day desktop usability of this system so much better using that alienware system on the desktop is a little bit like pushing bamboo under your fingernails whereas this one i'd happily live with as a daily driver just because of the ssd that little thing makes such a big difference now you may be thinking i get it they sacrificed gaming performance to get a better base system but they could have chosen better value for money parts in the price categories of the components that they chose instead of an i3 get like a 3100 ryzen cpu and instead of a gtx 1650 get an rx 570 now i asked the nzxt rep that exact question and his response actually made quite a bit of sense availability is a big issue as we all know the 3100 is a better price to performance component than the 9100 and the motherboards and stuff are cheaper as well but that cpu is like a fickle unicorn beast that's only intermittently in stock anywhere whereas the 9100f is everywhere the same thing goes for the gtx 1650 the availability of that part is so good i'm convinced there's like a geyser that just naturally produces them somewhere unfortunately for a pre-built manufacturer availability outweighs price to performance and that's why we've got this system spec here and i actually do agree with the compromise that they struck because the gaming performance on this system for games that people actually play like esports titles and minecraft and roblox and all of that stuff it's perfectly adequate at 1080p and then you still get a good base system with future upgradeability options that isn't a potential fire hazard just bear in mind other pre-built manufacturers that follow this good base system approach to specking out their pre-built at this price point you're still stuck with integrated vega graphics as opposed to only a gtx 1650. so with that let me know in the comment section below what you think of this entry level nzxt build system i think for 700 it strikes an interesting compromise for a pre-built system because yeah some 700 pre-built can be pretty janky so anyway if you liked the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one do consider supporting me on patreon it helps me buy more random stuff to do videos on and that's massively appreciated and until the next video byefor today's video i got my hands on the cheapest nzxt build pre-built it's part of the restructuring of their new starter lineup and it's a 700 system with some interesting design decisions that we'll get into in a little bit but before all of that for the sake of full disclosure nzxt did actually send me the system i didn't pay for it with my own money although there were no strings attached so if there's something wrong with it like it gives me i don't know stage three hemorrhoids i'm gonna tell you about it okay so let's see how the system is packaged that's always exciting oh that's foam that's really thick foam look at that that's awesome and then because of all that protective foam we have a very good condition normal case box oh already seeing what looks like good things through the back here and then here is the quick start and then here is the quick start guide that you get with the system just basically how to plug everything in i'm so sorry pc well i guess after that we're gonna find out how well that internal packing material actually works okay let's open it up and see how much damage i actually did to it there we go it's actually got all of the accessories in the case just like that uh i guess with the packing firm that's okay so with that let's look at the system now first things first and this is definitely we're gonna have to get our gary hats out here because the front usb 3 is not plugged in that's really not ideal although upon closer inspection you can see that the top two pins of the connector are actually damaged and i did hulk smash the pc out of its box so honestly it's probably my fault maybe when i dropped it the packaging inside the pc shifted and just like ripped the connector out other than that the cable management looks really good although you do have that m80x motherboard in a full atx case look which kind of reminds me of like a really tiny dude driving a ford f-350 let's have a look at the specs of this system which is a bit of a mixed bag first off we've got the h510 which is a case that i really like i actually use it for my editing rig and it's it's held up really well when looking at the inside of the system the first thing that i notice is the single 8 gig stick of ram and that really seems to be a theme with these pre-built systems why don't they just use two 4 gig sticks having dual channels so much better although this is an intel system so hopefully it's not going to affect the performance as badly as it did on that alienware system i did a video on recently when it comes to the speed of this ram it's going to be running at up to 3 000 megahertz now in reality what that means is you're going to be getting 2400 megahertz out of the box and you can enable xmp profiles to get it up to 3000 megahertz now personally i don't really understand why nzxt has an issue with running the ram at above 2400 megahertz out of the box because all of the prebuilts from like big oem manufacturers like dell and acer that i've looked at had their ram running at its rated speed straight out of the box like 26 60 megahertz or whatever the only thing that i can think of is maybe xmp and nzxt used to date and then xmp profiles dumped nzxt for like dow or hp or whatever and now all they can do is make awkward eye contact at parties but anyway moving on to the rest of the system as far as the cpu goes we've got an intel i3 9100f which is a four core four thread cpu it's not the greatest but at least they put a really good cooler on it so the temperatures are going to be cool and it's going to be nice and quiet and then as far as the graphics card goes we've got an msi ventus gtx 1650 in here we'll have a look at the performance of the system a bit later and then discuss this component selection there are however a couple of really good things about the specs of this pre-built the first one is the motherboard which is an msi b365m mortar which for a pre-built system at this price point is an amazing motherboard usually pre-built give you the motherboard equivalent of like a medium-sized head injury so that's great the other pretty big deal for this system is the fact that it's boot drive is a 500 gig nvme ssd that's amazing even the thousand one hundred dollar alienware pre-built only had a normal hard drive in it so yeah i'm really happy with that as far as the power supply goes we've got an evga br 450 in it which is an 80 plus bronze rated power supply it's fairly entry level but honestly in a pre-built if the power supply isn't going to give you diphtheria it's a really good thing as far as rear i o goes we've actually got two ps2 ports which is pretty cute and then we've got two usb 2 3 usb 3 a 3.1 type c we've got hdmi here as well and then an ethernet port with some audio connectors and then the graphics card gives us a dvi a displayport and hdmi and then we've also got some added wi-fi which is always a nice addition okay so with that let's put the side panel back on and see if it still turns on after david had a little whoopsie okay here's the moment of truth i've got it all plugged in let's see if i broke it and need to send a very apologetic message to nzxt i mean it's powering on let's see if we get a display output yes yes it's fine i wasn't worried at all i definitely wasn't planning on running away when it comes to the windows it's not been set up which is really nice i mean you can do your own windows setup now there are actually two pieces of software other than windows that come pre-installed on the system so that's a pretty big win when it comes to pre-built bloatware the first one is nzxt cam which i guess makes sense because it's an nzxt system and then the second one is geforce experience which will set up your graphics card drivers for you so that's pretty nice although i wish they got rid of the damn email login requirement for geforce experience i really hate this so hopefully one day nvidia will take this and shove it far up a hole of theirs so let's see what kind of gaming performance we get from this system as far as the gaming performance goes it's pretty much exactly in line with what you'd expect from a gtx 1650 most of the games are very playable at 1080p with a combination of medium to high settings here you can see battlefield 5 running this is at high settings and yeah it's very playable in fact it's a lot more playable than it was on that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system just because of how that hardware configuration crippled that pc the one percent lows on that system got down to 12 frames per second whereas on the gtx 1650 based uh build system we were getting a one percent low of 25 frames per second so that is a much more playable result although if i was playing multiplayer i'd probably drop it down to medium settings for for a higher frame rate when it comes to fortnite at 1080p competitive settings which is what i tested at now considering that every time i tested fortnite using epic settings i'd get some sweaty 14 year old telling me that like what kind of boomer plays fortnite at epic settings but yeah so at competitive settings you can get high refresh rate 1080p gaming performance out of this system uh so yeah if you're looking to play fortnite this will do that very well now when it comes to all of those performance benchmarks i did run this system in its out of the box configuration so that means the ram was running at 2400 megahertz as opposed to 3 000 megahertz no as i said earlier in the video i find the whole nzxt xmp break up situation really weird but when it comes to the ram configuration what i actually find more irritating is the fact that they have a single 8 gig stick of ram in there i really feel like a broken record on these pre-built videos like i'm always complaining about this but just stop doing that if you have to have eight gigs of ram in a system use two four gig sticks dual channels just better which brings me neatly to the discussion around the component selection in this build because initially on paper i was like oh that's not ideal we've got a previous gen i3 mixed with the gtx 1650 both of which are reasonably questionable components but i think there are a couple of reasons nzxt went with this configuration the first one is they sacrificed a bit on gaming performance to be able to get just better base components like a decent motherboard and a decent power supply which is great it means that every time you turn the system on you don't have to be worried about accidentally taking down kazakhstan's power grid or whatever right so it's going to be more reliable they've got decent cooling on the components as well which that's great as well it's it's a quiet system and everything sits at like mid 50s while gaming which is really good and then there's the fact that they included an ssd of a reasonable size at this price point that's a huge deal and even that thousand one hundred dollar alienware system didn't have that in and it makes just the day-to-day desktop usability of this system so much better using that alienware system on the desktop is a little bit like pushing bamboo under your fingernails whereas this one i'd happily live with as a daily driver just because of the ssd that little thing makes such a big difference now you may be thinking i get it they sacrificed gaming performance to get a better base system but they could have chosen better value for money parts in the price categories of the components that they chose instead of an i3 get like a 3100 ryzen cpu and instead of a gtx 1650 get an rx 570 now i asked the nzxt rep that exact question and his response actually made quite a bit of sense availability is a big issue as we all know the 3100 is a better price to performance component than the 9100 and the motherboards and stuff are cheaper as well but that cpu is like a fickle unicorn beast that's only intermittently in stock anywhere whereas the 9100f is everywhere the same thing goes for the gtx 1650 the availability of that part is so good i'm convinced there's like a geyser that just naturally produces them somewhere unfortunately for a pre-built manufacturer availability outweighs price to performance and that's why we've got this system spec here and i actually do agree with the compromise that they struck because the gaming performance on this system for games that people actually play like esports titles and minecraft and roblox and all of that stuff it's perfectly adequate at 1080p and then you still get a good base system with future upgradeability options that isn't a potential fire hazard just bear in mind other pre-built manufacturers that follow this good base system approach to specking out their pre-built at this price point you're still stuck with integrated vega graphics as opposed to only a gtx 1650. so with that let me know in the comment section below what you think of this entry level nzxt build system i think for 700 it strikes an interesting compromise for a pre-built system because yeah some 700 pre-built can be pretty janky so anyway if you liked the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one do consider supporting me on patreon it helps me buy more random stuff to 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