Nvidia pr gaming review in Spanish

Today we have a very special analysis, because it is Nvidia PR Gaming, the gaming team recommended by us, and assembled piece by piece by the Nvidia team only for us. Leading brands have collaborated in it, such as Asus, Intel, Corsair, Antec or Cooler Master among others. With an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti GPU inside it, along with an Intel Core i7-9700K with liquid cooling, Asus ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming motherboard and 16 GB of RAM, it is a perfect gaming equipment for the upper-middle range.

And it is not all, because this PC will be raffled among all of you, and with an Nvidia RTX 2060 inside.

We are grateful to all brands and especially to Nvidia for trusting us to provide us with this equipment for analysis and raffle.

Nvidia PR Gaming technical features

Unboxing and chassis

We begin our analysis of this customized and assembled PC according to our preferences for parts and performance, thus forming a mid-high-end gaming PC with top-brand hardware and components.

As always, we will start with its external appearance, since it is the first thing that will catch our attention as soon as we open the cardboard box in which they are inserted. In this case the box is that of the chassis itself, a Cooler Master Mastebox MB530P, fully protected by a plastic bag and two large white corks.

This chassis is a new generation of the Masterbox series, and is specially designed for gaming, with abundant cooling as standard and full of tempered glass panels on the outside.

Cooler Master Mastebox MB530P is a half-tower chassis with measurements of 489 x 229 x 469 mm. It is made of steel and has 4mm tempered glass in the front and two lateral areas. It is compatible with ATX, Micro-ATX and ITX motherboards.

The features of this chassis make it a great choice for our gaming PC, since it has a neat interior space, with cable routers, a closed compartment for the power supply of up to 180 mm, capacity for heatsinks of up to 165 mm and for graphics cards up to 410 mm.

The standard chassis includes three 120mm ARGB fans synchronizable with Asus Aura Sync through its three LED headers that will be available in the accessory pack of the chassis and of course the PC we have assembled.

The front area has a fairly complete I / O panel located at the top of the chassis. In it we will find:

• 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 2 x USB 2.0 3.5 mm jack connector for audio and microphone Equipment power button Button for lighting control of the three fans (if we do not use the LED headers on the board)

In this case, we have kept this button functional to choose the lighting of these fans without being synchronized with the Aura Sync system on the motherboard.

It has great cooling capacity, and this will be evident when we see everything that we have included inside. In the front area we will have a removable housing with a fine grain dust filter on the side air inlets and the 3 RGB fans that we have discussed, also with a capacity for liquid cooling of up to 360 mm.

For its part, we will have an upper area completely open to the outside with a magnetic dust filter that has capacity for 2 120 or 140 mm fans, and for 120 or 240 mm radiators, which in our case, we have used to install the system all in one H100i Pro from Corsair.

We then reached the rear area to find an Antec 120mm fan installed and the entire port panel on the motherboard and graphics card. If we look at the lateral area of ​​the expansion slots, we will see a lateral grid. This is not removable nor is it going to allow us to install a GPU vertically.

In any case, the ports offered by both the motherboard and the graphics card will be as follows.

Motherboard:

• 1 x DisplayPort1 x HDMI1 x Network (RJ45) GbE1 x S / PDIF Out5 x Audio Jacks 3 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue) 2 x USB 2.0

Graphic card:

• 2x HDMI 2.0b 2x DisplayPort 1.4

Let's remember once again that this PC will be raffled with an Asus ROG Strix RTX 2060 card.

We take advantage of the moment to talk a little more about the power supply. It is a Cooler Master MWE Gold 650 source (MPY-6501-ACAAG), with 80 Plus Gold certification of 650 W. With this PSU we will have enough power to power all the hardware that we have installed inside. The 80 Plus Gold certification ensures an efficiency of more than 90% when it comes to power supply. In it we will have the following connectors available:

• 1x 24-pin ATX 1x EPS CPU 4 + 4pin 4x 6 + 2pin PCIe connectors 8x SATA connectors 6x peripheral connectors 1x FDD cable

We finish with the lower area in which we have the four corresponding legs with rubber anti-vibration protections, and a medium grain metallic dust filter to provide clean air to the PSU.

Main hardware

We leave the external area behind to go inside and see in more detail each of the main components we have.

Processor

We start with the processor, which is a CPU that we already know well because it went through our test bench a few months ago. A CPU that combines top-notch performance, overclocking capabilities and the efficiency of this ninth generation Coffee Lake Refresh of Intel processors.

Under the LGA 1151 platform, it is one of our favorite processors for gaming, it combines great processing capacity together with a very moderate price for the assembly of high-end equipment. In this case, we have 8 cores and 8 processing threads that work at a base frequency of 3.7 GHz and reach a maximum of 4.9 GHz in Turbo Boost.

Its TDP is only 95W and we have 12 MB of L3 Intel Smart Cache cache available. Of course it supports DDR4-2666 MHz memory on Dual Channel and Intel Optane. In our tests we did a little overclocking at 5 GHz that increased performance significantly and with total stability.

If you want to see the complete review of Intel Core I7-9700K, here you have it.

RAM

We then go on to take a closer look at the two RAM memory modules installed in our Nvidia PR Gaming. Corsair Vengeance LED modules have been used, which we also know well and have passed through our bank.

In this case it is a configuration of two 8 GB DDR4-2133 MHz modules in Dual Channel and 15-15-15-36 CR1 compatible with XMP 2.0. Its appearance is spectacular, with large aluminum heatsinks and the detail of having customizable RGB LED lighting with Corsair iCUE or directly with Asus Gaming Aura.

If you want to see the full review of Corsair Vengeance LED here we leave it

Motherboard

The next thing we have is the motherboard, that element where absolutely all the hardware is connected and perfectly synchronized.

We want to be sure that our recommended PC is of quality and performs as the most, so this Asus ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming board has been chosen for the good results it showed in our test bench, although in our case we tested the Z390-E version, which had a built-in Wi-Fi card. As we can guess, it is an Intel Z390 Express chipset motherboard, suitable for unlocked processors such as the i7-9700K and with the best features of the LGA 1151 socket range.

We have 4 DDR4 @ 4266 MHz Dual Channel and XMP 2.0 DIMM sockets, plus 3 PCI-Express 3.0 x16, dual x8, or triple x8 / x4 / x4 compatible with Nvidia 2-way SLI and AMD Crossfire 3-way. We also have two other PCI-Express x1 for card expansion, two M.2 M Key PCIe x4 slots for NVMe SSD at 32 Gb / s with included aluminum heatsinks, and finally 6 SATA 6 Gbps ports for storage.

As a sound system, we have the presence of the improved Asus ROG SupremeFX S1220A HD chip with Nichicon 12K capacitors and dual high-impedance headphone amplifier, with support for Sonic radar III. RED connectivity consists of an Intel Gigabit I219V controller, an M.2 slot with capacity for the Intel CNVi 2 × 2 Wi-Fi card at 1.73 Gbps.

Nor do we forget that it has an Asus AURA Sync lighting system, to synchronize all the extensive system that this Nvidia PR Gaming brings.

Storage

The next thing to consider is storage, and in this case as we can understand, it is hybrid.

The system consists of a 500 GB Samsung 970 EVO SSD attached to one of the M.2 slots, and working under PCIe x4 NVMe. This unit is one of the latest from Samsung and also one of the fastest on the market, providing sequential read rates of over 3, 500 MB / s and write rates of 2, 500 MB / s. Of course it is the operating system and the main programs are installed.

As a mass storage unit we have a Western Digital Blue HDD of 1 TB at 7200 RPM under a SATA 6 Gbps interface.

Graphic card

If something is important in a Gaming PC, it is the graphics card, so for the tests of this gaming PC recommended by Professional Review we have an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti, which gave us such good results, even equalizing in performance to an entire RTX 2060 when we overclocked it. The lighting of the graphics card itself will be synchronized with Asus AURA Sync.

The chipset used for this GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is the TU116, 12nm FinFET, let's not confuse GTX with the last generation, because that is not the case. This GPU has a total of 1536 CUDA cores, but none of the RT or Tensor cores. We have capacity for 96 texture units (TMUs) and 48 rendering units (ROPs).

In addition, Asus has overclocked this GPU and has prepared it for two different configurations, in the first "gaming mode" we will have a base clock of 1500 MHz, capable of going up to 1860 MHz in turbo mode. In the second call “ OC mode ”, we will have a 1530 MHz base clock capable of going up to 1890 MHz.

As for the graphics memory used, 6 GB GDDR6 has been chosen , although in this case at 12 Gbps instead of 14 for RTX. The 192 bits of memory bus are also maintained providing a bandwidth of 288.1 GB / s.

If you want to see the full review of Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Ti we leave it here

Refrigeration, lighting

Section that we normally omit in the reviews of the pre-assembled PCs that come to us, but very necessary in this case due to the quality of the components it carries inside. Differential factor in any case when components are chosen in a personalized way.

We will start with the chassis fans, which are pre-installed at the factory and located in the front area. These are three Cooler Master ARGB 120mm fans with directional lighting. This means that we can connect it through an LED header on our motherboard (which has it) so that it is the one that synchronizes and manages the lighting. The lighting is compatible with the systems of the main brands, and of course with that of Asus which is the one we have in this Nvidia PR Gaming.

We immediately went on to better understand the cooling system chosen for the CPU. An unlocked processor needs something hard-hitting, and that's just what the AIO Corsair H100i Pro provides. A cooling system we've reviewed, featuring a radiator in a 240mm configuration and a high-performance, illuminated copper pump head Customizable LEDs with iCUE. We will see later the excellent temperatures we have reached in our stress test session.

Both the AIO and the rear of the chassis have been given one more thread to install Antec brand fans. In fact, it is a purchase pack distributed by the brand called Antec Prizm 120 ARGB, which is made up of three 120 mm diameter fans at 2000 RPM with PWM control and hydraulic bearings. It has a double ring of addressable lighting and compatible with AURA Sync.

In addition, it has a microcontroller with 5 ports to control the fans, both in terms of speed and lighting. We say pack, because it also includes two RGB LED lighting strips that will also be connected to this controller and that are installed above the PSU compartment and the front area by means of magnetic fastening.

Mounting

A great detail of this chassis is that the cable management is quite good, we have a fairly wide right side area with capacity for two 2.5 ”SSDs and a special compartment to store all the cables inside. We will see that the assembly is completely clean and aesthetic on both sides.

Both the strips and the Antec fans are synchronized with the motherboard to provide a quite spectacular result. There is practically nothing without lighting on this PC, it has everything that any modding fan could dream of.

Test bench and benchmarks

It is time to carry out the respective tests on this Nvidia PR Gaming. In this case, we will not carry out tests with overclocking, since, in the reviews of each component, we have carried out these tests and you have complete information and results in them.

As it is a gaming PC, we will carry out a complete test with both benchmark programs and games. We will not forget the temperatures and performance of the M.2 storage unit.

testing bench

Team: Nvidia PR Gaming (custom)

Monitor: ViewSonic VX3211-4k-MHD

Technical characteristics through software

Using the CPU-Z and GPU-Z programs we can know for sure the internal hardware of this equipment, for those who want more basic information about the components.

Storage

The tests have been carried out with the CristalDiskMark 6.0.2 software, and it shows the results of reading and writing in different modes for the Samsung 970 Evo storage unit. Remember that you should not abuse this type of tests because they reduce the life of the storage units.

It is clear that we are working in PCIe x4 mode with vertigo speeds in sequential reading of up to 3500 MB / s and also extremely good in writing, far exceeding 2000 MB / s.

The mechanical unit is not worthy of any test, we already know that the read and write speed is 150 MB / s.

RAM and cache memory benchmark

We look for read, write, copy and latency figures for the memory of our system. The performance of our PC will largely depend on it.

CPU and GPU benchmark tests

We continue with benchmark tests with the Cinebench R15 program both in OpenGL, and in Multi Core and Single Core rendering. Then we will list the results obtained in the 3DMark Time Spy, Fire Strike Normal, Fire Strike Ultra and PCMark 8 benchmarks.

Remember, these results will go up a lot when we introduce the Nvidia RTX 2060 of the draw into its interior. In any case, the results of the GTX 1660 Ti are approximately 15% compared to RTX, as demonstrated in our comparison.

Gaming performance and working temperatures

Finally we come to what we are all waiting for. How will this PC behave in games? Well let's see it, for this we have used the following titles:

• Shadow of the Tomb Rider: Ultra TAA Far Cry 5: Ultra TAA Doom 4: Ultra TAA Deux Ex: Mankind Divided: Ultra SMAA x2 Final Fantasy XV: Ultra Metro Exodus: Ultra without RTX

We have tested in the three main resolutions, Full HD 1080p, WQHD 2K and UHD 4K. To do this, we have used the FRAPS software, always taking three measurements for 180 seconds of play in different conditions and taking the average.

We see that overall, the results are slightly lower than what was shown on the GTX 1660 Ti test bench. Obviously it is normal, since in that case we made use of a top hardware such as a 9900K range and much faster DDR4 memories.

The GTX clearly gives us a great 1080p gaming experience, and be careful because in all the tests we have placed the graphics in Ultra and high quality in the texture anti-aliasing, which consumes a lot of graphic resources and hardware.

Similarly, in practically all titles we will have a good experience close to 60 Hz in 2K resolution and somewhat less in 4K resolutions. It is exactly what is expected of this GPU 1660 Ti in any case. The components chosen are shown to perform perfectly together and there are no bottlenecks.

We continue with the temperatures, collecting measurements with HWiNFO in a period of 1 hour with the stress mode of Aida 64, both in GPU and CPU. The ambient temperature in the tests is 18 degrees.

If this equipment stands out in anything, it is precisely in the excellent temperatures it offers us. An unlocked CPU like i5-9700K has peaked at just 54 degrees, playing for a long time and with the Aida stress test. Liquid cooling does its job perfectly and the excellent cooling of the chassis with the 4 fans placed is outstanding. And we must also say that the set is very quiet, at no time has the maximum RPM of the fans been reached, which makes it clear that the overclocking capacity is going to be very good, just as we expected.

For its part, the GPU and the Strix heatsink also work like a charm, and only occasionally have the fans been activated during game hours. Honors for refrigeration in this case, without a doubt.

Personalization software

To finish this analysis, we provide some screenshots, basically seeing the customization possibilities that we will have for the RGB LED lighting of the system.

We have installed Corsair iCUE to have liquid cooling controlled, and also Asus AURA for everything related to the management of installed fans and led strips. In the case of the front fans, we did not find them because they are not directly connected to the motherboard, but you can do it without problems.

Final words and conclusion about Nvidia PR Gaming, our recommended gaming PC

Undoubtedly, the advantages of mounting a personalized PC are evident with this equipment that is considered recommended for this first half of 2019. It is true that we do not have a small equipment like other manufacturers do, but this way we get the great advantage of customization, the ability to install hardware and cooling.

The aesthetic result is spectacular, with a Cooler Master MB530P chassis in which tempered glass and RGB lighting abound in practically all hardware components. Cooling is one of the main features to highlight, squeezing the most out of the chassis with 3 Cooler Master 120mm RGB fans and another 3 120mm Antec plus 240mm Corsair H100i Pro liquid cooling.

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The main hardware combines high-end elements under the LGA 1151 socket such as an Intel Core i5-9700K CPU, 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance LED RAM and Asus ROG Strix Z390-F motherboard with Aura Sync and overclocking capabilities. The Asus ROG Strix GTX 1660 Ti card is the icing on the cake for providing an optimal gaming experience in 1080p and 2K and acceptable in 4K.

Storage is also of a high standard, with a really fast Samsung SSD 970 Evo 500GB and good storage capacity with the mechanical drive. As we have said throughout this review, this PC will be raffled shortly equipped with an Asus ROG Strix RTX 2060 inside that as a whole is valued at more than 2000 euros.

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