AWD-IT Infinity 5, AMD Ryzen 5600, 16GB RAM, 1TB M2 NVME, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Win 11 Gaming PC £679.99 (Members Only) @ Costco

crazy how basically 80% of the PC is the GPU... Nvidia are laughing their heads off

Got mine today as well, I had the same issue until I eventually found a WiFi usb adaptor in the motherboard box - it was in a bag with screws and spare parts!

I'd say more £75 for the SSD and RAM, at least that's what i priced yesterday for a build i'm looking at doing. Depends what spec but i doubt it's a 980 ssd in there. (edited)

1. No hard drives. You'll have a NVMe drive installed in the only m.2 slot on the board (these a520mare budget ones)
2. According to the Internet these mobos have 4 Sata ports so in theory you could install 4 sata/HDD drives. So it should acomodate the drives you have.
3. GPU is very good for 1080p & 1440p gaming but you will find that as time goes on it will struggle with 1440p highest settings due to its 8gb vram here's how you can expect this system to perform in Hogwarts Legacy, 1440p high settings and it struggles to maintain 60fps. Perfectly fine if you're OK with dropping a few settings down.
4. Wifi seems to be a dongle adapter - if you have 5g broadband at home or normal router it will be fine for both.
5. VAT seems to be included but you'll need to factor in the membership fee if you don't have Costco card.

Hope this helps.

Nice list of criticisms to consider. Still though if this is all the complaints you have still seems like a solid buy, especially if you don't plan to upgrade for a couple years.

Thanks, Gamemax PSU is ok, A520 definitely a budget board. Still not bad, but for me the mobo is the most important component so I'd probably spec out something stronger. The price is still great though

You can upgrade RAM (depending how many slots the motherboard has, you may have to replace the existing RAM) you can upgrade the CPU to 5800X , 5800X3D, 5900X, 5950X. Probably won't be worth upgrading the CPU though unless prices drop off a cliff in the future, which could happen. You can also upgrade the storage, again depends how many M.2 slots the motherboard has whether you need to replace the existing M.2 or you could add SATA based SSD storage which is slower but not that noticeable in real world usage depending on your workload.

You could also upgrade the GPU depending on the PSU in the system.

So yes it is upgradeable but as AM4 is now replaced by AM5 no more CPUs will be released on AM4 and the future CPU options are limited but you can upgrade to 16 cores / 32 threads if you need that power for productivity. For all current games 6-8 core CPUs are all you require.

Evening, yes it will.
but as per normalilty, double the funds, get 1.5X better.

if this is ur budget, under £700 desire it with windows, best bang ur going to get and it will cover everything u throw at it.

it is a 6Core 12Thread CPU with 16mb of L3, A520 Msi Apro motherboard with the latest DDR6X 3060Ti 8Gb Card.

that is a good round system for the buck.

for the same price u could go more cpu intensive that do good for some music edits more, but ull lack in the graphical side for gaming and also GPU dev side too.

its also an 8Gb Card, where some ports down the line will struggle, u might have to play with the settings somewhat, but then vs a slower card with 12gb ull do that anyways as its a slower card.

Edit settings so u dont ram it, vs edit settings so u snail a slow card more. from a gamer point of view, u could knock back to an i3 and do more spend on a gpu for this cost, but will effect ur dev work.

so this sits in the middle at sweet price at very good performance.

The AWD systems we bought through Costco pre-Christmas had trash-tier PSUs at the bare minimum spec for the system. IIRC CIT, one already failed and got RMA'd.

It's usage case is more important- a great 1080P card, and OKish 1440P card for 2022 and earlier games.
For 2023 and beyond AAA games, its 8GB of VRAM is a massive downside. The system would have been infinitely better with the 16GB 6800 non-XT GPU, even if it had put the price up a small amount.

Anyway at this price, with a 8GB VRAM GPU, it's a strong NO BUY.

I believe that will be ok for future upgrades for the forseeable.

Happy to be educated though

Yes it will work perfectly fine! Do not use usb cables, just go wireless and you won't look back. There's not much difference between the two {when you're in the middle of a game you certainly won't notice on the heat of the moment). I used to run on a 2600x with 1060 no problems so this will be good for vr. Just be sure that the quest 2 is the only thing on the 5ghz WiFi and you'll be good to go

This will last a few years. Then you could buy spend money trying to upgrade this or you could just get another deal on whatever is out then.

It's been a great purchase, mainly using to play COD which the 3060Ti handles well. What I would recommend however is that you replace the GameMax PSU as soon as possible, have a look at cultists.network/140…ist. (edited)

Forgot to mention you might need to update the bios for b550 so it can run the 5000 series cpu.

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i had a similar pc with a basic mobo and ive got 4 SSD connected

Not PC exclusive but give Titanfall 2 a go if not played, I find little time for gaming but got totally in to this game recently. Most I start and then tail off but completed this one, loved it. Was released back in 2016.

Pretty sure They come with just windows on + all drivers

Also where are you pulling this 30% number from? (edited)

I assume this was a reply to my comment - I just happen to have a 3070 in a 10 year old pc so it's more of a why not

Nope, you need more RAM & storage, better CPU and a better all round spec - a video card with AV1 encoding should probably be on your list too. But again depends on what you want to spend.

Good points

I do wonder what the PSU is and what the mobo is too for future upgrades?

Even some MB support higher Ryzen I’ve discovered they can’t really cause of certain components in the mobo couldn’t handle / cool the higher heat from the higher Ryzens. Can’t remember the name. Capacitors or similar lol.

Nice one. As the deal is open with Costco until 14th May, would it be possible to share the unknowns on this thread?

Enjoy mate

Isn't it Nvidia as written?

I just got one too. Do you know if you need to know how to build a computer/put it together or if it is already pre-made? Some of the previous comments suggested you had to open it to get the Wi-Fi usb?

Nice. Let us know what he thinks when he get to use it

I'd defo shoot my shot on this one, they'll always be a new graphics card coming out and this is MORE than enough for light gaming. In fact, it might be a bit overkill