So the beasty arrived on Friday but I didn't get to do anything with it until Saturday because pub, but I have now had three days to muck about with it.
Hats off to Scan for a truly peerless customer experience from start to finish, yes you pay a touch more with them but IMO it's worth it, they must assign any queries/questions about a build to a helpdesk ticket that gets assigned to an individual, because my emails were all answered by the same chap, and my phone call was with him too (very nice guy called Josh).
The build itself is superb, it comes with a hand-checked build sheet, details of the overclock and suchlike. Win10 came fully updated, BIOS on motherboard was the latest revision (released only last month), latest Nvidia drivers, no crapware - literally nothing for me to do except plug it in and turn it on, log in, and start copying my stuff back to it.
They've got the Ryzen 1700X running at 3.8GHz across all 8 cores, the RAM is at 3200MHz with good timings which is great because Ryzen loves fast RAM, the GTX1080 boosts itself up to 2.01GHz (!) all by itself so no tweaking required there.
And the thing is effectively silent, at idle you literally need to put an ear close to the case to hear anything, during an extended gaming session it'll maybe advance to a 'low murmur', it's only when chucking benchmarks at it that the fans will progress to any sort of proper audible level. (I left Unigine Heaven running for an hour whilst I was cooking downstairs, and when I returned the GPU had topped out at 70C and was still auto-boosted to 2.01GHz, which is a phenomenal GPU clock.) The 1080's fans stop spinning completely when it's not doing anything, so it will set itself to passive. The CPU fan is generally seen to be around 450RPM.
As for gaming I've lobbed everything at it and it's chewed everything up, nothing more required than choose the ULTRA preset, 2560x1440 fullscreen, v-sync on, and it refuses to budge from a rock-solid 60FPS. GTAV is supposed to be a worst-case scenario for Ryzen (as the game likes fewer very fast threads with high IPC), but I honestly couldn't get the bugger to drop a single frame. (Of course GPU grunt becomes more important as resolution increases, and I'm at 1440p.)
So yes, very happy with it. A lot of cash to spend on a PC of course, but hopefully this system will do fine for years now.
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