Product Description
ASUS ROG Strix GA15DH Gaming Desktop PC, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD Radeon 5700XT Graphics, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD + 1TB HDD, Wi-Fi 5, Windows 10 Home - GA15DH-S762-SK
Design & Build
The G15DH (also known as the GA15) looks unmistakably like a Republic of Gamers product. The front panel is decorated with a huge ROG logo, and it has jutting angles of plastic and a huge slash of RGB LEDs across the centre. There’s more angled plastic on the roof alongside a useful handle, and the front panel has a handy headphone hook. At the front, you’ve got a full-size USB 3.2 port alongside a Type-C connection; at the rear, there are six USB 3.2 ports but no Type-C and only three audio jacks. The G15DH’s 10kg weight isn’t bad, and this machine is only 189mm wide – so it’s not too difficult to move around. It’s a good start, but hands-on time reveals issues. On the outside, there’s poor build quality: the plastic front and roof panels and the metal side panels are both flimsy. On the inside, there’s little to excite. The plain metal is not painted and the wires are untidy throughout, which is partly why the side isn’t transparent.
The CPU cooling is basic, the graphics card is a reference model with no ornamentation and there’s no side panel window. You don’t get any upgrade room from the case, with no 2.5in or 3.5in drive mounts. The G15DH’s rivals are better in this respect – they’re stronger and with more upgrade room. If you never plan to open your PC, it’s less of an issue, but it’s worth considering if you want to improve your build in the future.
Specs & Performance
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super is an excellent graphics card. It’s got Nvidia’s latest Turing architecture, which means Ray-Tracing – and this GPU has 34 dedicated cores. Elsewhere, the GPU has 2,176 stream processors, 8GB of dedicated memory and stock speed base and boost clocks of 1,470MHz and 1,650MHz. The GPU is joined by an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processor. It’s a versatile chip: it has the superb Zen 2 architecture, eight cores that support sixteen threads, and a base clock of 3.6GHz that boosts to 4.4GHz. The specification is rounded out by 16GB of 3,000MHz dual-channel memory, a 256GB WD SN520 M.2 SSD and a 2TB hard disk. Connectivity is handled by Gigabit Ethernet and wireless, but the 802.11ac chip is an entry-level, single-channel solution that’s only suitable for mainstream gaming.