Ryzen 3900XT & RTX 2080ti System Review – Fierce PC Lumina Cyber Rider
|If you’ve got £3000 to spend on a new PC and want amazing gaming and productivity performance, but don’t want to build it yourself, this Fierce PC Lumina Cyber Rider system may be for you. Lets take a look, but first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!
Let me start with running you through the spec. It’s a Ryzen 9 3900XT, on an Asus X570 Strix F motherboard with 32GB of 3600MHz Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB RAM, a STRIX 2080TI, 1TB Seagate Firecuda PCIe Gen 4 SSD with a Corsair RM850 PSU, all inside their Lumina case with these magnetic front panels. This Asus one is specific to this system, but you can get some other options like the ones I have here, I especially like the Tokyo alleyway one.
The spec list also includes an Asus 240mm LC AIO, and Asus RGB strips, and for all that you are going to be parting with almost exactly £3000. Now, being a pre-built, it is customisable, to an extent. You can’t change the case, you can’t pick anything other than a 240mm Asus AIO, the only M.2 options are the Seagate Gen 4 drives, you can only pick X570 motherboards and no other GPU options.
For this kind of price, I would have preferred a good bit more storage, a motherboard with built-in WiFi and perhaps an air cooler option, but obviously this has quite the strong Asus theme as Fierce PC likely has a partnership with Asus to give discounts or bonuses for using their parts.
As for how they did putting it together, this is great. It’s well cable managed up front, with matching PSU cable extensions and a pretty good job of cable managing at the back. Setting it up was done well too, with DOCP enabled for full RAM speed, Precision Boost Overdrive being tweaked for better performance, albeit with the CPU fan being set to “full speed” in the bios, making this annoyingly loud, but pulling off impressive performance.
Speaking of performance, let’s take a look.
Premiere Pro | Blender | Cinebench 1t | Cinebench nt | Power W | Temp C | |
3900XT | 203 | 122 | 505 | 6881 | 142 | 83 |
COW MW | 1080p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 1440p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 4K AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms |
3900XT | 166.75 | 135.501355 | 7.38 | 126.96 | 106.7235859 | 9.37 | 75.68 | 61.91950464 | 16.15 |
BFV | 1080p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 1440p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 4K AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms |
3900XT | 158.39 | 132.6259947 | 7.54 | 128.33 | 109.8901099 | 9.1 | 74.73 | 66.22516556 | 15.1 |
PUBG | 1080p avg | Min | 1440p avg | Min | 4K AVG | Min |
3900XT | 177.633 | 136 | 161 | 140 | 82 | 74 |
Fortnite | 1080p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 1440p AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms | 4K AVG | 1% Low | 1% Low ms |
3900XT | 224.33 | 140.8450704 | 7.1 | 152.8 | 108.1081081 | 9.25 | 79.34 | 67.38544474 | 14.84 |
As for temps, the CPU hit a maximum of 83°c, and the GPU a cool 65°c, although as I mentioned the noise level was a little too high for my liking here and while you can change the setting in the BIOS, that will affect temps.
So, is this worth your £3000? Well, if you were to build it yourself, you’d be spending somewhere around the same, maybe up to £100 less, if you went for the exact same parts. If you were to “optimise it”, so swap out for a B550 board, swap out the Seagate SSD with a Sabrent drive (still gen 4) and add a WD Black 4TB hard drive, it’d be the same price or lower.
It’s built well, clearly some attention has gone into setting it up for getting the most performance possible out of the box, and the case it definitely a unique way to customise your PC, but the “partnerships” they have here in Asus and Seagate are limiting the value offered overall, and for this kind of money it’s hard to give it a solid thumbs up with especially this little storage.