DinoPC Primal Light AMD Gaming System Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅30-04-18
Closer Look (Internals)
Removing the windowed side panel, we can see the internals of the system. In the front and back of the case are 120mm illuminated fans, helping keep noise and temperatures low. There’s also plenty of routing options for cables, making the inside look as pretty as possible, while improving airflow at the same time.



Forming the basis of the machine is an ASUS Prime A320M-K motherboard. The A320M-K only provides a pair of DIMM slots for system memory, both of which are currently occupied, but 8GB of DRAM (2x 4GB) should be ample for anyone wishing to embark on some low-end gaming and basic office tasks.
The board is also home to an M.2 NVMe slot, for rapid storage access. The drives can be quite expensive, especially for the fastest ones, however it may be a route to upgrade in the near future if prices drop substantially. The improved access speeds for data would vastly improve the systems day to day performance.

The AMD Wriath cooler is praised for its humble stature while providing great cooling for the budget end AMD CPUs. We’ll see how it handles the heat generated by the AMD Ryzen 2200G during our gaming sessions.



Housed beneath the shroud at the bottom is a 500W, 80PLUS Bronze rated PSU. 500W is massively overkill for a system of this calibre, but it does allow an upgrade of a discrete GPU without any worry of power limitations in the future.



Tucked away inside the PSU enclosure is a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD giving you more than enough storage space for games, applications, music, pictures and videos. This angle also clearly shows the 120mm front fan.



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