Stormforce Onyx 1060 3GB System Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅24-07-18
Conclusion
Pricing the Stormforce Onyx 1060 at £799.99 puts it in a very competitive market, especially for those who wish to use it primarily for gaming. A PlayStation 4 Pro or an Xbox One X can be had for around half the price, and they only require a TV to get you up and running, whereas you’ll be required to purchase a keyboard and mouse, a monitor and some kind of speakers/headset, which is something that must be considered.

Gaming performance must be commended. Stormforce have allocated the majority of the budget for this system towards achieving the best framerate possible for the money, however some areas have been neglected as a result.

Firstly, the boot time was upwards of 40s on a brand new, fresh install of Windows 10. Compared to the majority of systems that we test, which can be inside of Windows inside of 15 seconds, we feel an SSD, even a relatively small capacity of 128GB or 256GB would hugely change the Onyx 1060. Not only were boot times effected by the use of a HDD, we also found the operating system to be sluggish and unresponsive. We’re sure an SSD could be added without effecting the budget too much.

Intel’s 8th Gen. Core i3 CPUs are incredibly versatile; being relatively cheap they provide a decent clock speed and core count to enable gaming at high framerates while also being useful for simple computational tasks. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of VRAM powered its way through our 1080p testing, showing no weakness at all; and even managed 1440p at around 60fps in most of our tests (with Deus Ex proving to be the problem again.)

8GB of DDR4 memory, clocked at 2400MHz, is ample RAM for gaming, but when multi-tasking you may run into issues in the future. That’s when a problem will be found – the ASUS H310M-A motherboard only houses two DIMM slots, which are both populated, making a simple RAM upgrade that bit more costly.

All things considered, the case with the red fans looks great, the performance is there for any game you want to chuck at it, and you’ve got more than enough storage on that 1TB HDD to keep hold of several games, it’s just a shame about the lack of an SSD.



£799 to get you started on the route to PC gaming greatness? Yes please. The Stormforce Onyx 1060 is an excellent gaming machine but an SSD is desperately needed.

Pros
+ Case looks great
+ Good performance from the Core i3 CPU and GTX1060 GPU
+ 8GB of DDR4 Memory
+ WiFi card included
+ Plenty of connectivity
+ Excellent 1080p and 1440p performance
+ Tidy cable management

Neutral
+- Still requires keyboard, mouse and monitor

Cons
- No SSD makes the system sluggish and slow
- Case gets dusty fast
- All DIMM slots occupied


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