Stormforce Onyx GTX 1660Ti Ryzen 5 3600 Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅26-08-19
Closer Look (Internals)
Venturing inside the system, Stormforce have based the components upon an ASUS Prime B450M-A mATX motherboard which suits the configuration and use-scenario well. It’s not too overly featured that it’d push the price up but it has plenty of future upgradeability options with solid performance to boot.

The DRAM configuration is decent, too. The motherboard supports up to 64GB so it would be unwise to limit the system to 16GB by occupying all four of the DIMM slots. Stormforce have only populated two of them leaving a pair open to future upgrades.

Under the AMD Wraith cooler is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, one of AMD’s latest Zen2 processors built upon the brand new 7nm architecture. Clocked at up to 4.2GHz and with 6 cores and 12 threads, we should see some very decent performance from this chip.


While the processing performance of the Onyx system has been covered, here we have the graphics. Being the performance leader of NVIDIA’s latest GTX 16xx series of GPUs, the GTX 1660Ti from ASUS packs 1536 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 DRAM for very respectable 1080p performance.

Right above the GPU, in the first of two M.2 slots, is a 500GB Western Digital Blue SATA M.2 SSD. The blue PCB is a little unsightly but the lack of cables of a 2.5” SATA SSD definitely helps in other areas.

The storage requirements of the system are propped up by a 2TB Western Digital Blue HDD, useful for storing movies, music and less demanding games.



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