ABS Battlebox Ultimate Bearcat Barrage Gaming Desktop PC

[codyfoe1992]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=83-102-367&cm_mmc=BAC-eflyer-_-111918-112418-_-83-102-367-_-pg3pos8

1080 Ti, Unlocked 8700k, 16GB Ram, SSD and HD.

This is marked at $1,550 on Black Friday, this seems like a steal with there being a 1080 Ti in it....
Anyone know exactly what the parts are it comes with as I cannot seem to find exact specifics.

This would be a great pickup for someone who is looking too edit videos for YouTube and "entry level" streaming, correct? (More so asking on the editing as I know a i5/960 can stream lol)

 

[dcvikes]

Hi Cody, ABS is more or less a newegg house brand that is outsourced through a few 3rd party builders. With regards to that specific system I can see that it is using the Asus Prime z370p, which is a lower tier Z370 that Asus provides, although a stable board. I see a blower style Asus GPU, and lately ABS is using Team Vulcan DDR4 2666 or 2400 MHZ sticks in nearly all of the AMD or Intel builds. Regarding motherboards you could also receive the AsRock Pro4, and if you're lucky the MSI Z370 PC Pro board that is generally a bit more stable than either the AsRock or that specific aforementioned Asus board. Essentially you could wind up getting any of the 3 boards, and either the Asus blower style GPU or a Zotac double fan GPU. SSD's -- the 240GB is usually a cheaper brand like TEAM or SI, which is fine to get you going. Power supply is usually Ttake 600w or HEC 600w. CPU heat sink is usually the 100m Ttake downdraft model which you will want to change out if you use the rig for any actual rendering purposes since it will get past the 90c temperature mark and thus will throttle, though for gaming it should stay around the 70-85c mark, depending on the game.

 

[g-unit1111]

Sounds like a good deal but when you look under the hood and see the rest of the hardware that it's paired with (PSU, RAM, storage, etc), it doesn't sound like as good of a deal.

 

[dcvikes]

Yes the above is somewhat correct, being that the usual off branded (HEC, or bronze Tt) PSU, and the TEAM brand ddr4 2666/2400 memory, and lower tier ZED (Z370) is where they tend to skimp out a bit to widen the profit margins for themselves. That, and ABS in particular has been shipping off PC's without an activatable Windows Key (in 90% of the cases you actually have to call or email them to get a working key). Other than that as long as it's working good when you receive the rig it should be ok. If it were me though I would replace the PSU unit with a Seasonic or eVGA Gold PSU and keep the HEC or Ttake as a backup. One more thing I would replace the small air cooler with something like an H60, or H100i AIO unit.