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Thursday 13 September 2018

MSI Aegis 3 8th review: The PC that thinks it’s from Dead Space

When I opened up the box containing MSI’s Aegis 3 8th PC, I wasn’t entirely sure whether I was looking at a miniature desktop or the disembodied head of Dead Space protagonist Issac Clarke. With its pointed stack of glowing RGB strips and dark, angular chassis, the Aegis 3 is a dead ringer for Clarke’s ominous helmet, albeit without the added decoration of spattered Necromorph blood round the outside. If you’ve ever wanted a PC that looks like a piece of video game box art, the Aegis 3 definitely fills that tiny niche.

This alone should give you a pretty good idea of MSI’s small form factor PC is the kind of thing you’d want looming over in the corner of your desk, but there’s also its surprisingly beefy innards to consider as well. For inside this titchy case, you’ll find an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, oodles of storage and Intel Optane Memory support. Let’s take a look.

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Source : rockpapershotgun.com