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bother back to harbor unbox today we are going to check out what I believe will be a very impressive pre-built system from PC case cube now please note this content has been sponsored by PC case gear just want to be very clear about that but this is a pre-built system that I can honestly say I would recommend I've tested almost every component in this system and there's absolutely nothing that I would have trouble recommending before we can take a closer look at all the bits inside play some games all that sort of stuff we do need to unbox it or sort of in this case unpackage it so let's do that first okay so we have a nice clean build here and PC case key caught the eclipse 1060 gaming system and well that's because it is in the fantex Eclipse p400s tempered glass case and it's sports and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1066 gigabyte graphics card now you'll have likely noticed a little badge down here on the tempered glass side panel and that means the Eclipse 1060 gaming is a certified Nvidia battle box and it's actually one of the few certified battle box essential gaming pcs that are available in Australia right now and for those of you who don't know and video did create the battle box certification to ensure gamers that what they were buying was ready for battle although I obviously prefer to build my own pcs I know many of you do as well I certainly understand that not everyone wants to invest time research and components then going through the process of building their own game Eirik for those that just want to lay down some cash and in return get something that's ready for action there is the pre-built having said that not all pre-built systems are built equally and I've come across plenty of gamers in my time that have defected from consoles or they're just getting into PC gaming for the first time and they've made the mistake of buying an expensive gaming system only to find that while it does have an expensive core i7 processor it's paired with an entry-level graphics card and you certainly can't blame novice users for seeing core i7 and geforce on the specs list and just believing they're set this is where the battle box certification comes in there are two types of battle boxes the ultimate and the essential the essential is what we have here and it calls for a minimum of a core i5 or Verizon 5 CPU at least 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and SSD Windows 10 and a g-sync display if the system comes with a display so any retailer selling a battle box essentials must meet or exceed those specifications so what's in our system from PC case key then the brains of the operation is a core i5 8500 a close relative to the much-loved 8400 the model I recently named the best value mid-range gaming CPU the i5 8,500 is plugged into a very sensible a soos prime a b-36 tmk motherboard which offers important features such as USB 3.1 gen2 and a full-speed m2 port which is being used and I'll get to that in a moment the only downside to this motherboard is the fact that it only packs two DIMM slots that said the four dimm slot does cost four dollars more and offers very little in the way of extra features so I understand why PC case key made this choice also cooling the i-5 8,500 is the included box cooler so it will be interesting to see what thermals look like we've seen no throttling issues with the 8400 previously so shouldn't be an issue then for the memory we have some team force nighthawk ddr4 3000 memory and of course we do have 8 gigabytes for the boot drive we have the a data XP g sx 6000 nvm a 256 gigabyte SSD and that has been installed along with some secondary storage a much larger Seagate Barracuda 2 terabyte drivers also included oh and of course we also have the nvidia geforce gtx 1066 gear bike reverse card and the exact model being used is the isuzu dual fan OC the gtx 1060 really needs no introduction at this point if you haven't seen my countless benchmark videos featuring it then really what have you been doing with your time put a link in the video description if you want to go check those results out anyway we've unboxed to the battle box and it's now time to do some battle and see what this thing's really capable of ideally the system is intended for a DP high refresh rate gaming but it can handle title such as fortnight for example using competitive settings at 1440p without any issues as luck would have it the Isuzu rog swift PG 27 uq a brand new 4k 144 hertz gsync HDR 27 inch display was sent to me by mistake and will be going out to Tim tomorrow for an in-depth review but in the meantime I thought we could take it out of the box and have a bit of a play of course we won't be taking advantage of that 4k resolution but still it should look pretty spectacular even at 1080 hey I plan to play a bit of fortnight pub G the crew two Star Wars Battlefront two and Far Cry five then I'm going to test out these streaming performance of the rig when playing fortnight's that should be interesting now this isn't something we've done on the channel before so I'm keen to see how the core i5 8,500 and geforce gtx 1060 combo stream before any that though first that we do have fortnight's 50 verse 50 mode at 1080p using mostly competitive settings so no shadows epic draw distance and everything else pretty much set to high we saw an average of one hundred and 60 FPS and a minimum of 104 fps after 10 minutes a gameplay frame time performance was also excellent and the 0.1% low figure never dipped below 73 FPS so again nice smooth stuff there the 50 V 50 mode is pretty heavy on the CPU at least compared to the solo duo and squad modes but even so the core i5 8500 had plenty of headroom for stream II which again we will look at shortly for now let's take a closer look at how the game ran and then move on to check out pub G has to be said I'm still not really a fan of pub G but anyway my personal preferences aside I know there are others of you that will want to know how the Eclipse 1060 gaming system handles this title so here we are again testing takes place at 1080p and for this one I've just left the quality settings maxed out on the ultra preset using these settings I saw around 70 FPS on average with a minimum of about 60 fps so for pub G I think that's pretty good next up we have the crew - and this title is locked at 60fps using the maximum in-game quality settings at 1080p the core i5 8,500 and geforce gtx 1060 combo had no issue hitting the 60fps cap so a nice smooth experience and the game does look very good star wars battlefront 2 is another great looking title that's both very CPU and GPU demanding playing the arcade mode at 1080p using the ultra quality settings allowed for an average of around 90 FPS with a minimum of just 75 FPS again another nice smooth enjoyable game experience was hard alter their attention turn it out then finally I jumped in a far cry 5 and ran him lessly around the countryside sniping anything that moved at 1080p using the opto quality preset the Eclipse 1060 gaming system averaged around 80 FPS with dips as low as 50 fps still for the most part we were seeing over 60 FPS so very smooth stuff indeed okay so we've played a few games now but what if you want a live stream while playing games can that be done with the Eclipse 1060 gaming system more specifically can we stream fortnight on this system in short yes we can assuming we're willing to compromise on quality which honestly you have to do on just about any system without a second dedicated streaming rig without the live stream up and running we were seeing 150 FPS on average a 1% low of 123 fps and a 0.1% low result of 111 FPS using the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU to encode we saw very little impact on performance and the same was also true for the ultra fast CPU preset however the ultra fast super fast very fast and faster presets are all noticeably worse in terms of visual quality than the GPU encoder it's not until we get down to the fast CPU and code preset that we see a similar level of quality to that of the GPU and code but the problem is here we do suffer noticeable and very regular stuttering so unless you have a crazy high-end system or more ideally a dedicated streaming rig it looks like the GeForce GTX 1060 is the best option for budding streamers anyway Tim is going to look into this in much more depth next month so keep an eye out for that content for someone just getting into PC gaming who doesn't have a huge amount of money to spend getting a battle box essential certified PC like the Eclipse 1060 gaming is a surefire way to know you're getting something very capable the GeForce GTX 1060 and Core i5 8400 really are a great value gaming combo that said PC case key has told me they're working on an even better deal which should be available at the start of the week and will come in and around $100 less or at least they're hoping it'll come in at $100 less and you really want to look out for that one because it will be featuring a rise in 520 600 and of course it will be a battle box essential certified PC using a b3 15 motherboard and of course a geforce gtx 1066 gigabyte graphics card for the core i5 version i have priced up all the components individually and it looks like you're only paying pc case care about a hundred and fifty dollars to build configure the system for you and I have to say they do a very nice job of that the cable management is just amazing on both sides even the backside it's just very clean they've done a fantastic job with these systems something else I'd like to add is that this system does come with an in-house two-year warranty from PC case Kia and that covers things like parts all the labor involved with any repairs or whatever needs to happen with the system and quite incredibly they will also cover the cost of shipping both ways so for you to send the system back to them for repairs and then once repaired back to you so that's quite incredible and you can also extend that to a 3-year warranty period for extra hundred dollars if you wanted to and I'm not making a big deal about this service guy I genuinely think it's quite incredible I realize this is a sponsored video but PC case key hasn't provided any talking points for this content and I'm certainly not being forced to bring this up I just think it's quite incredible that you're getting that provided by default a two-year in-house warranty with everything I just mentioned I'm honestly impressed that from mere $150 or a 10% markup then only providing a clean bill that's fully configured and ready to go but they're also offering to cover any costs of hardware failures and stuff like that if you've ever built your own PC like I'm sure many of you have and you've had to RMA a component which I'm sure many of you had to do that as well you'll appreciate just how much of a big deal what PC case gear are offering especially for such a small fee overall the system worked exceptionally well the frame rates were nice silky smooth gameplay temperatures were good the system was very quiet when gaming so overall a great package here having said all that I strongly advise you look at the horizon 5 model that should be available next week so shortly after this video goes live so check that out there may be an even better buy there anyway I hope you enjoyed the video and a big thank you to PC case gear for supporting the channel once again if you came to check out their pre-built systems I'll provide a link in the video description so you can jump over there and hopefully better find that Verizon 5 version as well thanks for watching I'm your host Steve see you next time