Now I know most of you have no problem building and upgrading your PC, hell for me that is half of the fun. But for everyone I know that builds their own PC, there is another person asking me or friends to help put everything together. Not everyone has friends that can help and some people just don’t have the time to do it as well. This is especially true with things like renovations around the house and working on or building cars but for some reason, there is a big stigma when people would rather buy a prebuilt PC. For me, it's not something I need to do but I completely get why some people would go that route and frankly I would rather people be going with boutique builders who use off the shelf parts that are easy to fix or upgrade later than proprietary PCs from other companies. Anyhow the Ohio bases AVADirect sent over one of their Avant builds a while back and we have been playing with it. It’s about time that I sit down and talk about the build, its performance, and the overall experience.
Product Name: AVADirect Avant Mid-Size
Review Sample Provided by: AVADirect
Written by: Wes Compton
Pictures by: Wes Compton
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Build Specifications |
|
Case |
Black Corsair Carbide 540 w/Window |
Power Supply |
EVGA SuperNOVA G3 Series 750W, 80 PLUS Gold |
Power Supply Cables |
EVGA 750-850 G2/G3/P2/T2 Light Blue Power Supply Cable Set (Individually Sleeved) |
Motherboard |
ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING |
CPU |
INTEL Core i7-7700K |
Overclock |
Mild Overclocking, 10-20% Performance Increase |
Thermal Paste |
Diamond 7 Carat, 1.5g, 4.5 (W/m-K), Micronized Diamond, Thermal Compound |
Cooling |
Corsair H100i v2 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler |
Memory |
KINGSTON 64GB Kit (4 x 16GB) HyperX Fury DDR4 2400MHz, PC4-19200, CL15 1.2V, Non-ECC, Black, DIMM Memory |
Video Cards |
2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FOUNDERS EDITION, 1480 - 1582MHz, 11GB GDDR5X 352-Bit, PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card |
SLI Bridge |
EVGA PRO SLI BRIDGE HB (1 Slot Spacing) 60mm Retail - For GTX 10X0 Series |
SSD |
SAMSUNG 250GB 960 EVO 2280, 3200 / 1500 MB/s, V-NAND, PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe, M.2 SSD |
Hard Drive |
SEAGATE 1TB BarraCuda ST1000DM010, 7200 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s NCQ, 64MB cache, 3.5-Inch OEM HDD |
Optical Drive |
LG ELECTRONICS WH14NS40, BD 14x / DVD 16x / CD 48x, Blu-ray Disc Burner, SATA, 5.25-Inch, Black, OEM Optical Drive |
Fans |
6 x CORSAIR SP120 120mm High Performance w/ RGB LEDs, 1400 RPM, 52 CFM, 26 dBA Cooling Fan |
Lighting |
Custom 20-Color LED Lighting w/ Remote |
Warranty |
Silver Warranty Package (3 Year Limited Parts, Life-Time Labor Warranty) |