Origin Neuron Gaming Desktop Review

[Julio Franco]

From first glance it's clear that the Origin Neuron means business, and when I say business I mean serious gaming business. Flashy RGB lighting, top of the line components, and a clean aesthetic make it one of the best looking builds I've ever laid my eyes on.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1459-origin-neuron-gaming-pc/

 

[Humza]

This is NSFW! Never have I got an erection so quick within 10 minutes of coming to work.

 

[pawel04]

Very clean build! I love that Phanteks case, looking to get one myself except MiniITX format

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

A very nice, neatly built system no doubt, but if it was me forking over the dough, I'm not sure if I'd be overly happy with nVidia's reference cards but by the same token, with their blower style cooling, they're probably best suited to SLI configs. Actually the price doesn't sound that excessive for those specs but shopping around will get you a better deal.

 

[Aryvandaar]

That price isn't that bad, but you're an ***** if you don't build yourself or go to a shop that can custom build for you. You can save a lot of money and if the workshop knows their stuff it will be the same, if not better quality. A lot of the premade factory PCs have rather poor build quality (even gaming ones).

 

[andy06shake]

Don't like the white cabling, murder to keep clean. Aside from that it looks like a half decent rig but you could build the thing yourself for significantly less monies, and might even learn something in the process.

 

[dendrion]

Now I just feel inadequate.

 

[HardReset]

So for $3799 you get quad core CPU, SLI @ x8, 250GB SSD and Windows 10 Home

Nvidia is not expected to give good support for SLI so that rig is mostly waste of money.

 

[JudasSheep]

Nice system! My only complaints are: If you're going to sleeve cables and offer that as a "feature" use cable combs! With the white contrasting so much against the black of this build you can easily spot the zip ties. If I were to spend $3k+ for a custom machine, it better have every attention to detail covered.

The thick black hoses of the AIO cooler look tacky IMO with the side panel. Since Origin make that too, extend the tube length and route it better!

Lastly, someone already mentioned reference cards. The silver of the shroud and the green of the logo (not being RGB) just makes it look.... I don't know... unappealing. Paint the shroud black or something!

 

[elites2012]

I want to meet the dude that turned men to girls. ive noticed over the passed 4 yrs, cable management has been a huge issue, cause its "cute". car manufactures dont worry about hose management, as long as it runs and keeps cool. fellas take your balls back.

 

[Boilerhog146]

So for $3799 you get quad core CPU, SLI @ x8, 250GB SSD and Windows 10 Home

Nvidia is not expected to give good support for SLI so that rig is mostly waste of money.

First I see one say PhysX is dead, NOW, another saying Nvidia is not expected to give good support for SLI.....

yeah , one slot will be necessary in the future for NVidia cards while ,the rest of the slots will be for crossfire capable which nobody has said AMD will ever stop supporting.

How is that complimentary Vega 64 watercooled card?.

Links please? some funny shite..lolz

 

[HardReset]

First I see one say PhysX is dead, NOW, another saying Nvidia is not expected to give good support for SLI.....

yeah , one slot will be necessary in the future for NVidia cards while ,the rest of the slots will be for crossfire capable which nobody has said AMD will ever stop supporting.

Links please? some funny shite..lolz

GTX10xx series officially support only 2-way SLI, GTX1060 has no SLI support, fewer games are getting SLI profile...

AMD is also reducing Crossfire support.

 

[JudasSheep]

I want to meet the dude that turned men to girls. ive noticed over the passed 4 yrs, cable management has been a huge issue, cause its "cute". car manufactures dont worry about hose management, as long as it runs and keeps cool. fellas take your balls back.

I don't promote cable management because it looks "cute," I promote it because it helps with airflow and creates a clean and professional appearance. I used to work in a data center and cable management was a big deal there. I carried it to my own system builds. I build systems for my friends and even they ask me to tidy up the cabling.

Would you rather work on this network? http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/blog/...able-hell-15-of-the-worst-wiring-jobs-ever-2/

Or would you rather work here? https://lis3353.wikispaces.com/file/view/data-center-1.jpg/89313543/data-center-1.jpg

How much attention to detail you take in your work can say a lot about you as a person. As usual too much attention or the inability to draw a line before it becomes obsessive are not good, however when you are in that business, your customer pays for professional work. Even being a TV cable installer, would you prefer they just poke a hole with a screw driver 4ft from the floor and run a cable across the wall because its easy for them or would you want them to do it right!?

I've got my balls right where they need to be. I've also have a high standard of work. It's part of what made me successful.

Oh and car manufactures do care where the hoses go. Too many, too big or too long all can impact cost and performance. I am sure Bugatti, Porsche, Ferrari, etc. just put hoses where they may because it doesn't matter as long as it runs and keeps cool.

 

[Skinner2001]

With such a killer rig it seems strange that the benchmarks are for 1080p only lol.

 

[Draconian]

So for $3799 you get quad core CPU, SLI @ x8, 250GB SSD and Windows 10 Home

Nvidia is not expected to give good support for SLI so that rig is mostly waste of money.

I would agree. The value proposition of two 1080 Ti's is questionable. For twice the cost of one 1080 Ti, you get maybe 30% more fps, and that's only at 4K resolutions and beyond. Depends on the game.

Would be better off to just get one 1080 Ti and then replace it in a year or two.

 

[TechVet25Plus]

I guess I'm just oldskool when it comes to building a new box but this is a lot of money for a config that doesn't give you any extra internal drive bays. I just really really prefer to have my HD's mounted down good and tucked away inside my tower where they receive their fair share of the cooling solution whatever that maybe. Especially when it comes to the SSD's since they still haven't come with any lower cost quality drives that are also of considerable storage capacity. The hybrids drives are actually a decent way to go in a raid setup as long as you are running them direct bus with sata3 and I don't see anything like that being possible in this Origin Neuron build. I have just seen way too many external storage solutions destroyed beyond recovery by the ever present combo of life and a little bit of murphy's law to be comfortable keeping any data that actually matters to me outside the tower. I have been working in IT for over 18yrs now and you would not believe the truly insane things users have had happen to their gear and then come to me with the remains hoping for some miracle of data retrieval. I really do have an arsenal of tricks to use for this sort of thing including some hardware that I can take the use to mount and access actual physical disk after stripping down a hard drive to absolutely nothing.
So its not like I don't try and help these people out with whatever I can think of but still well over half the time I cannot do anything for external devices that have caught the wrath of the user. Much higher chances when the drive or chip or whatever is mounted internally.

 

[Tom Sunday]

For close to $4,000 the Neuron pre-build specifications clearly reek of trying in making as much money as posible. PCPartpicker considering persisting pricing fluctuations is basically on point, but we all know that botique builders being awarded an additional 15%-25% manufacturer discounts by buying in bulk (especially during sales) and or by proffering hardware on the very edge of its cutting-edge lifeline. If the Neuron hardware in this particular case comes from Corsair directly even more of an applied hardware discount prevails. In that here Origin exercises an extraordinary high markup cost associated with the Nuron and "all in" approximately 40%. Cost Cutting Grabs: Troublesome is that serving up a (2) Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti 's this late in the game and with those going on BIG SALE once the new generation of NVIDIA GPU's becoming public in less than 30-days. Besides SLI configurations are generally dead and are not supported anymore. Then (WTF) offering (2) 2TB Seagate 2.5" FireCuda's (70% rating at Amazon) and in times where true enthusiasts PC builds are becoming all Nvme based. On the quick...the Asus motherboard selecion and choice of the Intel CPU is also kept on the cheap and basically where most profit can be wrung out. Bottom-line: I thought that with Corsair now going big into the prebuild market (by having aquired ORIGIN that they would throw a bone into the market or a so-called 'Phillybuste'r to rattle the cage. Reaping credibility and applause. All naturally with a much more 'ahead of the curve' creative and smarter selectiion of hardware. Perhaps it looks that I am trying to spend somebody else's money, but what do I know?

 

[Tom Sunday]

I guess I'm just oldskool when it comes to building a new box but this is a lot of money for a config that doesn't give you any extra internal drive bays. I just really really prefer to have my HD's mounted down good and tucked away inside my tower where they receive their fair share of the cooling solution whatever that maybe. Especially when it comes to the SSD's since they still haven't come with any lower cost quality drives that are also of considerable storage capacity. The hybrids drives are actually a decent way to go in a raid setup as long as you are running them direct bus with sata3 and I don't see anything like that being possible in this Origin Neuron build. I have just seen way too many external storage solutions destroyed beyond recovery by the ever present combo of life and a little bit of murphy's law to be comfortable keeping any data that actually matters to me outside the tower. I have been working in IT for over 18yrs now and you would not believe the truly insane things users have had happen to their gear and then come to me with the remains hoping for some miracle of data retrieval. I really do have an arsenal of tricks to use for this sort of thing including some hardware that I can take the use to mount and access actual physical disk after stripping down a hard drive to absolutely nothing.
So its not like I don't try and help these people out with whatever I can think of but still well over half the time I cannot do anything for external devices that have caught the wrath of the user. Much higher chances when the drive or chip or whatever is mounted internally.

LATE REPLY: I am not a "Arsenal full of Tricks" kind a guy (wish often I would) but living in an retired over 55 community I have often been called to help. On all sorts of things mind you! Indluding gear and and its remains for the the ultimate cheap and or no cost miracle fix. One of the problems being second grade 'Geek Squad' services and phone trolls from third world countries masquerading as IRS and or PC virus services sanctioned by Microsoft. Who can you trust these days anymore? In as much as I like to stand up to the bar for the rescue, I find that the would be rescuers are always finding something wrong and are easy to point fingers. Stating: "I never had this problem before you came." What is a man to do?