Skytech Archangel Gaming Computer PC Desktop – Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz, GTX 1660 Super 6G, 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, RGB Fans, Windows 11 Home 64-bit, 802.11AC Wi-Fi

If you’re researching and scouring the internet for advice on what starter PC you should invest in, you’ve found the review you need. I spent months looking for a decent starter PC which would allow me to play all my games and store my content effectively while maintaining speed and quality. I wanted something that was visually appealing and functional. Personally, I’m a broke college kid who needed an outlet to balance school and fun. I wasn’t sure where to begin my search, and had no idea what requirements and features were required to have an effective and quality PC. In this review, I’m putting you in the same position as me when I started looking through the PC marketplace. When beginning the search for your first PC, the search can be incredibly overwhelming and daunting. However, you are doing an amazing job searching if the internet miraculously placed you with this item. Let’s break down the features of the PC. This computer is a pre-built, which means there is no assembly required on your part. There’s a plethora of components that make a PC worth buying, and I’m going to break down the specifics of each component and how they correlate to the performance and quality of your gaming. The primary function of any PC is the central processing unit (CPU). The CPU, also known as the processor, is responsible for executing and refining the power of the computer and directly affects how fast your computer, or computer games, run. The CPU also processes the inputs from the user. The CPU included in this pre-built is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3rd Generation. Another important factor in the PC is the RAM. RAM stands for random access memory. The purpose of RAM is to store short term data and allow the computer to process applications properly. RAM’s data is temporarily stored while applications are currently operating, like having a game playing. This PC includes an 8 GB card, which means if your game requires around 8 GB of RAM, your game will function and run properly. If you’re not sure about a game’s required RAM, the developers include those requirements in the breakdown and analytics of each game. The RAM only holds the contents of the game for the duration you are playing. Once the application is shut off, the RAM is no longer active. While RAM is temporary storage, the hard drive processor is not. The hard drive is responsible for keeping your saved digital storage. For example, the space required for saving your game or Microsoft Office software. The hard drive also stores pictures, videos, and the applications you have downloaded on your PC. Hard drives can be external or internal, which means saving data to an external memory device or to the PC itself, and the contents can be deleted or cleared once you no longer need them. The hard drive included in this pre-built is a 500 GB SSD card.You can store up to 500 gigabytes of content as soon as you start up the PC. While those features are required for every PC, even for basic processes and storage, this review will highlight the rest of the features through a gaming perspective since this is a gaming PC. The graphics card is responsible for rendering the images and content in a game and running them effectively. It renders the movements, animations, inputs, and images that are in a game through a series of fast acting calculations completed internally in the PC. The graphics card included in this PC is a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6G GDDR5, which holds 6 GB of RAM. If you are a little confused about whether or not your graphics card is going to make or break your gaming experience, multiple YouTube creators offer a compilation of benchmark videos with clips and segments from video games with demanding animation and experiences. The benchmark videos include multiple different video games from varying genres that allow gamers to evaluate how well the game is running and performing according to the graphics card. In regard to usability and functionality of the PC, the developers include a detailed pamphlet that illustrates how to properly connect your PC to a monitor, how to enable your microphone and speakers, and the purpose of each feature throughout the PC. The PC does require a three-prong plug, and I recommend plugging the cord into a direct power source, like a wall outlet, instead of a surge protector or extension cord. When plugging in a monitor, there are two different HDMI ports on the back of the PC for up to 2 different monitors to be used simultaneously. Computer speakers should have a USB port to plug into the back of the PC, and headsets unfortunately require a splitter to listen to music and use a microphone concurrently. Splitters are cords that connect to the aux section of your headphone cord, and it divides this cord into two auxiliaries that can be plugged into two corresponding holes. The PC permits one USB powered keyboard and one USB mouse. These assets are included in the Amazon listing. This PC in particular is incredibly visually appealing. It features a white tower, which is the casing around all the important parts of the PC, with a tempered glass window on the side to look into the tower. It also has multiple RGB lights and various functions. There are seven varying lighting functions to encourage individuality and styles. Located around the lighting fixtures are three fans to cool the system down. The fans blend in with the circular lighting fixtures. The PC is very cohesive in design, and incorporates each feature into the overall aesthetic of the computer. Overall, I believe this PC is a quality starter PC within its budget of $1200. It strives in multi-tasking, allowing the user to edit documents while having a YouTube video or music running in the background. I have been using this system for school and gaming for around eight months, and have had no issues with it. I give it an A for price point, functionality, and visual appeal. I believe this is an ideal PC for a casual gamer who wants something to balance work and entertainment with.

So this is the second SkyTech PC I have bought and once again it was generally due to the fact that pricing parts to build my own was a bit difficult (COVID-19 has made GPU's scarce and pricey). My first PC is over 2 years old at this point and I was looking to actually just upgrade it's GPU but everything I was looking for was out of stock or outrageously priced (at the time a 1660 Super was running near $400). So settled on this machine, it had many of the parts I was looking to get myself: AMD 5 3600, 16GB RAM, GTX 1660 Super, B450 Motherboard (though I had looked at B550). I am not disappointed. The machine is wonderful and came delivered without single flaw. It booted on the first try and immediately went into Windows all the RGB elements performed perfectly. I ran a series of tests after it finished setting up windows and was pleased to see that the SSD was not a total disgrace as some had stated before, getting about 530 MB/s sequential read times at 1Gib and 514 MB/s Write. That's not blazing fast, but it was better than I expected after reading reviews. I received an ADATA SU720 500GB model drive in my build and these Read/Write times are right on par with the stated performance for that drive, so I have no complaints. I dropped a NVMe drive in right away as well as a smaller 256GB solid state drive for games and other files. Storage was my only real concern with the build, but adding storage is not an issue (though it is a bit hard to get power cables up from the power supply, the cords are all quite well bundled and I had to cut a zip tie to get a free power cable for my SSD). Unlike the pictured model my build came with a B450M/AC so it had the Wi-Fi built in to the motherboard, rather than in a PCI slot. This was a pleasant surprise and also meant the motherboard had 4DIMM slots instead of 2 (like I saw some people received in their builds). The RAM I got was OLOY Brand, which is actually Chun Well Technologies and it was just standard RAM, no heat spreaders or anything fancy, but it was strong memory, running 16-18-18-36 at 1.3v with a clock speed of 100Mhz at a 15x multiplier, giving you 1500Mhz DDR, so in total it matches the 3000Mhz advertised. I am unsure what brand GPU I got, but I suspect by the I/O panel (DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort) it is an MSI Brand. Its a single fan, compact unit and I am quite happy with it, though I would have preferred a model without DVI and instead a second DisplayPort or HDMI port. In all I am very pleased with this machine, the quality, the build, the parts, and performance are all above what I anticipated and as a Cyber Monday deal for $200 off list it was pretty much a bargain. Edit: so Cyberpunk 2077 has dropped and despite the poor reception I had it running at a smooth 60fps @1080p on this machine. I am not a crazy hardcore gamer looking for 4k and Ray Tracing, I was quite happy that my new PC ran the game with no hardware related problems and a strong graphical performance.

TLDR: Highly recommended for anyone who wants to play current gen games at 1080p. Great value and decent parts! Its been 84 years since I last set foot... well it feels that long since I was last in the market for a new gaming rig. I'm upgrading from a 9 year old Cyberpowerpc-amd phenom-gtx960 build (RIP). Long overdue for an upgrade. I didn't recognize the Skytech brand so I looked at some amazon reviews, their website, and the Better Business Bureau. Come to find out they are new company (1yr old) and not accredited at the BBB. So, I read some more reviews at the BBB site. Most of the negative reviews were people that were impatient waiting for tech support or frustrated with the rma process and bummed about having a brick. One thing that I noticed was that all of the complaints lodged against them (there were 3) were resolved. I decided to take a chance on them. The package came 1 day ahead of schedule which was nice. But, when I saw the condition of the packaging I was concerned. It looked like Wolverine had slashed the top of the box (check out the pic). When I opened the package everything seemed well placed and secured. The first thing I noticed on this machine was the side tempered glass panel. It works on a hinge and magnet system which is super convenient and easy to access. Once I unpacked everything and took out the expanding foam that wraps the components (carefully), I checked all of the power and data connections. Everything was plugged in and snug but i noticed that the cable management was very tight, especially under the shroud where the power supply is. There is a 3.5 in HDD bay down there that is going to be difficult to access because it's partially blocked by the cables. Other than that the cable management is clean enough. The keyboard and mouse were umm... usable... Ive definitely had worse. I checked all of the components to make sure my device matched my product description, everything seemed good. I was a little worried because the video card looked smaller than I expected. Turns out that it is a PNY single fan card, smaller than most 1660 Supers but seems to be up to par. Next I crossed my fingers and hit the power button. First there were lights... beautiful RGB goodness coming from 3 case fans and the front panel. Next, the ASRock boot screen (Almost there). Finally the Windows setup screen and a sigh of relief. Windows setup went well, no issues. Startup after initial setup takes less than 20 seconds. I ran NZXT Cam software to get some info on the components and monitor cpu/gpu loads and temps. Idle temps are normal and the case seems to have good airflow. I can play RDR2 at 1080p at a solid 60fps with mostly high/ultra settings, I had to lower the water quality and reflections to keep above 60 frames. Other games that I tried out were COD Warzone, Doom Eternal, Borderlands 3, R6, Fortnite, DBD, CSGO and others. It ran all of them at med-high settings. I'm very happy with my purchase and would highly recommend Skytech Gaming.

I'm very happy with this PC. Not to throw HP under the bus, but I had originally ordered an Omen from HP which came with a i7-9700k and an RTX 2070. The computer was amazing in terms of performance but it had one fan and little oblivious me buying my first pre-built gaming PC got it, long story short it would overheat a lot and I had to return it, was a shame because I really liked it. Anyway, fast forward a week, I'm much more informed and I run into this while looking for a replacement. This PC is amazing, it runs any game I want at max settings even though the components are technically less powerful than the omen which came with the i7-9700k and rtx 2070, although that PC cost $1700 and this one, the SkyTech PC costs only $1000!!! So this runs any game I want perfectly smooth and at a fraction of the cost, it has a total of 5 fans, I originally thought there was only 4 but there are 5, 2 on top, 1 for the exhaust, the CPU is self cooled with it's own fan, and there is one fan you can't really see in the pictures which blows directly towards the graphics card. needless to say this PC does not get hot at all. It stays cool under load which is amazing to me. It came with GeForce Experience already installed which was cool, opened it up and I instantly downloaded the latest drivers for the 1660 SUPER. This PC is just amazing I'm happy I stumbled upon this gem, the RGB lighting is controlled through a button on the top of the case, again this is so amazing to me, The only thing I had to do to this PC since I got it to be fully up to date was update the mobo, update windows and updated the graphics card drivers in GeForce Experience. to update the motherboard it comes with a CD, this PC has no CD drive though, I googled b450 update and I found it easily enough lol. Overall I'm in love with this PC and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a pre-built in this price range.

Came packaged well and setup was easy. All of the boot discs came with it. Basically hook it up and start it up and it's ready. The mid tower chassis has room to customize and add different things if you would like. The PC comes with 4 fans 3 RGB and 1 3pin fan. 3 fans are set to exhaust and the 1 3pin is set as intake. That was one of my issues right there. The three exhausts moved air fine. The one intake being on the front of the case which also doesnt let much air move because it's a slim vent on the side of the case caused the air to be very extremely negative and had air pulling into the case from every crevice. In the end I had to add 2 more fans to the front of the case. Even now the air is still slightly negative due to case design. Another issue I have with this PC is that the 3 RGB fans that come with it are rigged to the led bar that is on the front of the case. They are powered by a sata 3 adapter (molex) but the interesting thing is they run off a 4pin rgb cable that's daisy chained from all 3 fans and the led strip, there isnt a fan cable, I guess they are 2 pin fans rigged to run off the power supply? I havent tried hooking anything daisy chained to the open connector to see if that theory was correct. With this setup though it leaves most of your rgb headers empty. The problem is you cant sync to those fans, havent tried hooking them to one of the headers because I have no clue how many amps they pull since the fans are hooked into that connector also. Another thing with the fan setup was the dual fans on the GPU would start to spin up faster and the case would get loud from those to fans. Since I added the new fans this hasnt been an issue. So with 2 more fans it actually run more quiet overall. That's why I dropped it to 4 stars. Now to why it goes down to 3 stars. The motherboard comes with built in wifi. You are supposed to get 2 antenna with the PC. Mine came with only one. So I got into chat with skytech, friendly customer service guy told me he would ship one right out to me with an email confirmation. Well, its 2 months later and I'm still waiting for either thing. Hopefully if something else goes wrong I dont have that issue. Computer runs really good at 1080p on high setting on demanding games. 1440p on higher demanding games it starts to lose frames and gets sluggish, less demanding games I was able to run 4k fine. So this machine isnt going to be an ultra setting machine unless your playing something older. Overall it was cheaper to buy this (it was on sale at the time) than to build something similar since PC parts are crazy priced right now. With it not being on sale you could build it for around $800 if dig for the parts. I got it cheaper than that. If you dont dig for the parts this build could cost around $1200. It took 2 months but changed to 4 stars since they finally sent me my antenna.

Day 3 Review, 4.5/5 Stars This Skytech PC shipped very quickly, is very clean, and arrived with all advertised components. Having done some comparative shopping, I settled on this model, and after the first few days of using it, I am completely satisfied, with just a couple of things to be aware of, mentioned below. Pros: * Very tight and clean build, with a lot internal case space to spare. * Shipped very quickly, using Amazon Prime's free shipping. * Competitive pricing for the included parts - RAM, SSD, Motherboard and Graphics Card. * More than capable of handling any of today's games, or multi-tasking for business. * Comes with LED gaming keyboard and mouse. * LEDs are synced between the case fans (which you can see through the clear glass side panel), and the front panel of the case. A button on the case lets you cycle between colors (or turn them off). Cons: * The included motherboard is small. There are 2 RAM slots, and if you use the included WiFi card, there are no additional slots for more PCIe components. To upgrade the RAM, you will have to replace an existing card, rather than just adding to what is already included. * In my build, the graphics card and WiFi cards are so close together, that when I first turn on the PC, there is a rattle sound, as the graphics cards' fan vibration makes the card tap against the WiFi card. In my case, this goes away after settling for a few seconds, and the PC is very quiet afterward. * If you want to install a disk drive (not SSD), you will have to do some digging. There is not an available mount directly inside the case. The parts are essentially of the 2019 generation. You may be able to find another model with a graphics card that is newer. However, at the time of this writing, I was unable to find a better overall purchase for the price on Amazon or any other site, and I believe this is and will be fully capable of playing any games released for several years to come.

Let me just start off by saying that I don't know much about PCs, and I was worried about taking the leap to purchase one, even after doing a couple weeks of research AND asking my hardcore PC gamer friends for advice. However, I am super impressed and so thankful that I chose this one! It is sooo worth the money! I started getting into PC gaming not too long ago, mainly playing Minecraft, and much more recently, Valorant. Both games ran like garbage on my old laptop, so I decided to upgrade - and let me tell you that this PC has not missed a BEAT! The only issues I've ever had with Valorant on this PC were due to internal issues with the game itself, not the PC. No lag AT ALL - same goes for Minecraft and a few smaller games I've played. Everything runs absolutely great! I will say I was a little worried when I opened the box up (I was hoping it hadn't gotten damaged during shipping), but it was actually packaged really nicely and came with a nice quick start guide, which was really useful for me, considering I've never set up a gaming PC before. Everything was hooked up properly internally, so it was plug and play after getting everything arranged the way I wanted on my desk, and I instantly loved the RGB lights! They're awesome! You can change the colors just by pressing a button on the top of the PC. I leave mine on the solid rainbow setting most of the time, but there are so many colors you can rotate through! The other nice thing is that it has a lot of open space inside, so I could definitely upgrade it as needed, and there's 5 cooling fans! It never gets hot (even after HOURS of playing Valorant) and is pretty quiet. The mouse and keyboard included are okay - I'm sure most pro gamers will want to upgrade, but for now, they work good for me. Coupled with my new 24" Sceptre Edgeless Curved monitor, it's a perfect match for me. If I ever need to purchase another PC in the future, I'd definitely buy one again from Skytech!

First power on, the MSI branded NVIDIA 1660 GTX's fan ground hard against the TP-Link Archer wifi card, producing an insanely loud noise and unbearable noise I opened up the side and the two cards paired inside the machine don't have enough clearance to not make this noise. The thing that bothers me the most about this is that the PC comes with a signed and stamped 'tested' certificate, however within seconds of having the device on at all, it produced a noise that you'd have to be deaf to miss. It's completely unacceptable to promise it's been tested and then deliver If you're hardware savvy, or are at least comfortable with internals, you'll probably be fine. I happened to have a smaller form factor wifi card and swapped the oversized part and solved the PC's issues for now. If you're someone shopping for a family member and maybe PC hardware isn't your hobby or career, be VERY wary. This would absolutely be a return for anyone without spare parts on hand or the skill to do it. For those of you checking stats closely, many of the other complaints here seem legit. I received a motherboard with two memory bays instead of the 4 on the image, exactly one PCI-E, and not a lot of room for expansion. There is a disclaimer that parts displayed may not be the same as what is showed in the image, so I accepted the possibility that I'd be in this position. I'm not happy to be in it, but for what I needed the PC for, it'll be fine. I still need to check the mobo specs to see the upper cap of ram on it. The wire management is very good, but rather obnoxious for adding a second SSD. Pros: - Hardware seems okay quality. Wire management is good, though suffocating. - The packing material and shipping are pretty good. - Pretty Cons: - Testing is dubious, probably not even really being done. - The hardware I received didn't fit together properly, the fan of the graphics card ground into the network card underneath it, likely damaging the fan on the graphics card. - Had I been in any other position, this would have been a return. - I'm not overly fond of the case. There's no screws securing it, just a swinging magnetic door. You'd think this would be a great feature for the person who frequently swaps parts or can't operate a screw driver, but with how limited expansion is on this build, I'm not sure anyone would see the benefit. Don't keep it on the floor if you've got small children or a dog.

This computer desktop I found nice to get, it can be customized easily, upgrading the hardware is easy and the purchase of it was affordable for me, and when I had some technical issues the company Skytech helped me solve the issue with replacement hardware.

I’ve had this pc for 4 months now and it hasn’t failed me once. Can’t lie at first I was worried especially since the specs aren’t new. But I’ve been able to play any AAA games at the highest settings and it runs smoothly! Thank you SkyTech Gaming for this amazing product!

I don't know anything about computers but this was really easy to set up :)

The tower is really nice and the way they laid out the rbg but after only 2 weeks after buying it, the computer decided to stop working and the problem was found to be a faulty motherboard. I talked to amazon they said i can return it (pay for the return shipping) and they could only refund me, obviously not refund the shipping. So in turn i paid 1500 for this to get to me, and it broke within weeks, and I'm told to pay another 200 to ship it back and receive my 1299, so all in all i lose 400 bucks in shipping and don't even gain a working gaming computer. If it had worked as intended 5 stars, nice layout good graphics card and chipset.

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