Skytech Shiva Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 2600, NVIDIA RTX 2060, 16GB DDR4, 500G SSD, RGB Fans

I want to begin by saying this is a fantastic choice for newcomers to gaming. I am definitely not one of those, but I wanted a good, reliable system to hook up to the living room TV and just play some PC games with a wireless keyboard and mouse. It does this fantastically.Now, let's get the bad out of the way, as I usually do. I'll throw in a few caveats, though, because most of the bad can be mitigated easily. First: This is a pretty bare-bones setup. It's a mini ATX motherboard, which does its job well. This does, however, come with a few issues for power gamers who want to modify the thing. Two RAM slots means you're pretty limited on what you can put in there, but you could potentially throw in as much as 32gb, which is more than enough.Next, the case: It's pretty, no doubt. All the fancy LEDs everywhere are neat, but they are also a big disappointment in some ways. First: Aside from the front panel, the ASRock software doesn't seem to control anything. This means you're going to have different schemes set up for the case lighting vs. the front panel lighting. No big deal there. They just make it look cool anyway. Problem is, that's not where the case issues end. Despite being a bit of a monster compared to my old mini-ATX cases in the past, with a super-wide profile, and being fairly deep, it has little room for expansion. There are no optical drive bays, so even if the motherboard had tons of slots, you're really limited on what you can do with this case. I ordered a USB Blu-Ray writer to address this problem, so that's a quick fix right there. I also have to excuse this, because we're living in an age where physical copies of PC games are exceedingly rare, and even I almost never use my optical drives in my other desktop aside from making Blu-rays of my photos. We really do live in the digital connected age.The other disappointment here is the power supply: I'm amazed that a 500w PSU can actually run this computer, but I suppose with no physical drives, that's not all that surprising.Now for all the good.After setting the computer up, realizing the HDMI cable I was trying to use was absolute trash, and connecting the KB+M dongles, I began installing all the things. I have a WD external hard drive that I'm storing the games on, because 500gb goes away quick, and I don't mind a little loading slowness. What to try though? Well, my first game played on this computer was Skyrim SE. Needless to say, unmodded, the game runs perfectly on ultra settings, even at 4k. Hard to read stuff on a 55" TV though. I'll have to throw some ENBs and other mods to really push the RTX 2060 using Skyrim.After that, it was time to try out some newer games, and they didn't disappoint in terms of pushing the hardware here. GTA5 would start dropping below 30fps on ultra settings at 4k. Dropping down to 1080p fixed that right up, though. Honestly, I don't see enough difference to need it. 1080 on ultra was easily above 60fps constant.Next, of course, I needed to try something that only RTX and some of the newer GTX cards can even do: Quake II RTX. I hate to say but I was underwhelmed. At 4k, it felt like playing Quake II on my old Cyrix machine back in the 90s. The ray-tracing was neat, with real reflections from water and glass, but ultimately not worth the time. It was still fun playing Quake II in high-res on a modern system, but I really don't feel like the ray-tracing was that big of an improvement over most games, especially newer ones.Most recent, I finally managed to get RDR2 downloaded, and by God, putting it at 1080 was still gorgeous, even with the plodding, GPU-hating intro levels. It truly shined, making the X-Box version look like an X-Box 360 in comparison. Unfortunately, the same isn't true at 4k. Practically a slideshow at that resolution.So overall? Great gameplay for even modern games as long as you don't try to get away with 4k. It's not a 2080, after all. You want RDR2 in 4k on ultra? Have fun with that video card that costs as much as this entire computer, if not more. You want buttery-smooth 1080p gameplay with even the newest games on Ultra? This is your choice.I may come back and amend these after some further testing. I've never played Fortnite or PUBG, but this setup is commonly shown to be impressive with those games. Minecraft with RTX support is going to be pretty awesome, too!All bad and good put together, this is a great system for new PC gamers, a second gaming PC, or just for anyone who wants a big upgrade without a big headache. If you aren't looking for something that will be relevant in a decade, pull the trigger. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to run Doom at max settings and watch my old desktop cry.

Okay, let's start this with I bought this computer in October of 2019. This is a VERY late review, but I wanted to test it out, and I forgot...So let's get into it, it's a tiny beast in a prebuilt computer. I have streamed video games on twitch, recorded and edited content for youtube in Davinci, (it doesn't *really* like adobe products), and its been there through almost 6 years of social media and community management for my desk job.I haven't really done anything otuside of changing the RAM and I added a hard drive, but it could probably use a new power supply and new usb hub at this point. If I have everything (keyboard, mouse, microphone, streamdeck, 2 cameras, external hard drive, and my ring light) it won't turn on fully, but once I unplug the cameras it turns on, then I can plug them back in and everything works fine. Again, after this much time and this much work, I think this computer has done really well for what I needed it for. It's quiet, its functional, and it plays everything from Destiny 2 to Stardew Valley. Heck, it even likes Fortnite and Warframe, you just can't be at max settings.anyway, if you want a pc and this fits your budget, I recommend it. When I bought it it was on a payment plan, but even at 1,000 it's a great price for a pc that's lasted me almost 6 years while taking a beating, moving across the country, and storing WAY too many photos of my cat.

I wanted to switch to the PC from console but I don't know anything about building a PC and didn't really care to learn. I didn't want or need anything fancy, I just simply wanted a PC that can run any game I want to play smoothly at 1080p on Ultra settings, all hopefully without breaking the bank. This pc does exactly that, and I imagine it could probably push it to 1440p for most titles but I haven't tested that. The only games that have given me any framerate issues are Microsoft Flight Simulator and BeamNG, both notoriouly GPU intensive games, and I had to compromise with high graphics settings for those (which is still fine).Also worth noting that the RGB lights on this rig look amazing, and my setup looks like a piece of art, my roomates are jealous of how it looks eventhough they are all running RTX 4090s lol. Also this PC is so quiet, even when maxing it out flying over NYC in Microsoft flight simulator you barely notice that it's there, and it doesn't noicably produce any heat. The keyboard and mouse that come with the PC are also excellent quality and look great.Awesome prebuilt PC and more that what I was hoping for.