The ABS Master gaming PC has a lot going for it: 1440p gaming, rendering prowess, and a big tick for productivity. And while it does deliver when it comes to the core components, it wouldn’t have hurt for ABS to give the supporting parts a little more love.
We had some issue with having to get the RAM clocked correctly, for instance, but otherwise we can let the numbers speak for themselves.
First off, let’s go over how the ABS Master arrived. If you’re concerned about whether it will get to you in one piece, don’t fret; if anything the packaging is a little overkill. We’ve run our reviews from the UK office and the PC came all the way across the Atlantic double boxed with huge bubble-wrap filling the outer box, polystyrene couchings, as well as a foam pillow.
There was also a GPU bracing mount inside the case to stop the pre-installed Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (Gigabyte model) from jiggling around. I think the mount had shifted a little in transit but all that packaging did well to keep everything from getting damaged.
Out of the box, the Intel Core i5 12400F together with the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti delivers fair performance for the price, though the RAM speeds were a definite hurdle. With mediocre memory throughput and memory copy scores, I found myself questioning the spec sheet. It said 16GB DDR4-3200, but the system was only clocked at 2,400MHz. We assumed the OLOy Blade RAM was where ABS had skimped, but after a chat with the PR we were informed that “the user would need to turn XMP on in the BIOS.”
Generally, we’ve found system builders will take care of that step for you, since the average user isn’t always aware of XMP. I myself didn’t think to check before the benchmarking process, and I do this for a living. What you’re seeing here, as there are no instructions telling you to do so, are the out-of-the-box benchmarks you’d see from the machine without any extra tinkering tinkering.
That said, it hasn’t posed too big a threat to the ABS Master’s gaming ability.
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