Skytech Gaming Skytech Chronos Gaming PC Desktop – Intel Core i5 12600K 3.7 GHz, NVIDIA RTX 3070, 1TB NVME SSD, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 650W Gold PSU, 240mm AIO, 11AC Wi-Fi, Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Original price was: $1,599.99.$1,151.99Current price is: $1,151.99.
Price: $1,599.99 - $1,151.99
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Why settle for mediocrity? Leap forward into the Skytech Chronos series with the newest architectures. Featuring the latest NVIDIA RTX series graphics cards and is powered by INTEL Core i5 Processor. The Skytech Chronos delivers the best price-to-performance value gaming rig in the market.
The Skytech Chronos offers the best gaming computer built up to date to quickly run popular games such as Call of Duty Warzone, Fortnite, Escape from Tarkov, Grand Theft Auto V, Valorant, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Roblox, PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds, Overwatch 2, Counter-Strike 2, Battlefield V, New World, Minecraft, Elden Ring, Rocket League, Baldur’s Gate 3, Dota 2, HELLDIVERS 2, Monster Hunter, Palworld, Terraria, Rainbow Six Siege, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and more at Ultra settings, detailed 1440p Quad HD resolution, and smooth 60+ FPS gameplay.
SPECIFICATIONS
Manufacturer Part#: ST-CHRONOS-0411-B-AM
Processor: INTEL Core i5 12600K 3.7 GHz (4.9GHz Max Boost) CPU
Memory: 32GB DDR5 RAM Gaming Memory with Heat Spreader
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (Brand may vary)
SSD: 1TB NVME SSD
Operating System: Microsoft windows 11 Home 64-bit
Case: Skytech Chronos Case Black Edition with Front Mesh
WiFi: 802.11AC
Fans: 4 RGB Fans for Maximum Air Flow
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INTEL Core i5 12600K 3.7GHz (4.9GHz Max Boost) CPU Processor | 1TB NVME SSD – Up to 30x Faster Than Traditional HDD | 240mm AIO
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (Brand may vary) | 32GB DDR5 RAM Gaming Memory with Heat Spreader | Windows 11 Home 64-bit
802.11 AC | No Bloatware | Graphic output options include 1 x HDMI, and 1 x Display Port Guaranteed, Additional Ports may vary | USB Ports Including 2.0, 3.0, and 3.2 Gen1 Ports | HD Audio and Mic | Free Gaming Keyboard and Mouse
4 RGB Fans for Maximum Air Flow | Skytech Chronos Case Black Edition with Front Mesh | 1 Year Warranty on Parts and Labor | Lifetime Free Technical Support | Assembled in the USA
This powerful gaming PC is capable of running all your favorite games such as Call of Duty Warzone, Fornite, Escape from Tarkov, Grand Theft Auto V, Valorant, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Roblox, PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds, Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Battlefield V, New World, Minecraft, Elden Ring, Rocket League, The Division 2, and more at Ultra settings, detailed 1440p Quad HD resolution, and smooth 60plus FPS gameplay.
Customers say
Customers find the computer easy to set up and running smoothly right out of the box. They find it a good value for the money, with an adequate gaming performance and good build quality. Many are satisfied with the looks. However, some customers have reported issues with hardware damage. There are mixed opinions on performance and cable management.
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3 reviews for Skytech Gaming Skytech Chronos Gaming PC Desktop – Intel Core i5 12600K 3.7 GHz, NVIDIA RTX 3070, 1TB NVME SSD, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 650W Gold PSU, 240mm AIO, 11AC Wi-Fi, Windows 11 Home 64-bit
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A Gamer at Heart –
An Entire 1440P Gaming PC for the Price of one RTX 4090
I normally build my own gaming computers, but when EVGA said “nope” to NVIDIA and left the GPU market entirely, which was followed by the RTX 4090 dropping in at a “modest” $1600, I knew I had a problem. Sourcing my own individual components for current gen hardware was going to be too expensive for my tastes. As I researched I noticed a common thread: buying a prebuilt might be the way to go depending on what components you want.I noticed this Skytech gaming PC on sale for Black Friday. It was $1600 marked down from $1700, with an RTX 3080. As if this writing, an RTX 3080 still averages $800. That leaves a delta of $800 for the remaining system components. An AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is roughly $250 on Newegg (Amazon doesn’t have it in stock.) Subtracting the CPU leaves you $550 for the case, motherboard, fans, ram, and SSD (the m371 1 TB m.2 in this system is roughly $100), and of course the assembly. Everything considered, I think this is a great value, especially when you consider that an RTX 4090 alone is also $1600, the price I paid for the whole system. Even at $1700, I think it’s a good value.Because I build my own systems, I hadn’t researched prebuilts and had not heard of Skytech. I did some research and learned they are a legit company based in the U.S. My hero, Long-Haired Steve at Gamers Nexus, reviewed one of their prebuilts last year and gave them the nod approval for build quality. If you follow Gamers Nexus at all, you know they commonly savage prebuilts.While I can cobble together a system, it has never turned out as nice as what I received here. The cable management is lovely, as are the included extras, like guides and extra case screws. I ended up needing those screws because of a Skytech error. Whomever assembled the system did not install the retention screws for the RTX 3080. This is a heavy card, and to be honest, I was terrified at the prospect of the system being shipped and thrown around by UPS with an unsecured GPU. Thankfully, Skytech uses expandable foam to secure the interior, which was necessary because my box arrived partially crushed.I slotted and secured the GPU (it was partially unseated) and everything booted up fine. My 3DMark benchmarks are excellent, and I also used 3D Mark stress tests to test temps using HWMonitor. The system runs quite cool. I have also been gaming on it of course and the performance and temps have likewise been great.I game at 1440P and the RTX 3080 is so far excellent. Would my FPS be higher with an RTX 4090? Of course, but I think a 4090 is overkill at 1440P and there is zero chance of me spending $1600 on a 4090. Nvidia makes great GPUs but we are now paying the price for their effective monopoly. I would have picked a more feature rich motherboard, and one with more M.2 slots, but I made a reasonable compromise to upgrade. The included MB is fine, but it’s an older, OEM only Gigabyte board that lacks a manual. Bios updates are also not readily available for that reason. The newest BIOS was only a few months old and Skytech had already flashed it to the MB which was great attention to detail.Skytech also has great customer service. Shout out to Daniel, who understood my terror at the GPU being unsecured in the case. I decided to call customer support even though the system was able to POST and appeared to be running fine. I left a message, mostly expecting no one to even call back since my message indicated the system was working.Nevertheless, Daniel called me back, and gently held my hand as he reassured me that he understood why I called to report it. Daniel was clearly based in the U.S. (which I do not take for granted anymore) and did not hurry me off the phone. He documented the issue in case any problems manifest in the near future related to the GPU. I agree with his assessment that if any MB pins were bent I would be having problems already.Based on the current market, I figure I paid a modest extra price for the system to be pre-assembled. That modest price is worth it to me to avoid the terror of maybe bending a CPU pin when I build my own. Honestly, building a PC is not that hard, but I do appreciate once again having a CS number to call, having a PC warranty, and the professional build quality which certainly exceeds my abilities (GPU retention screws notwithstanding.)When it’s next time to upgrade, I will certainly check out Skytech again.
Enthusiastdre –
Standout Customer Service
4.5 stars (rounded up to 5).The PC hardware itself probably only deserves 4/5 stars, but my support experience from Skytech (through Amazon) was simply excellent, so Iâm happy to bump up my rating to 5 stars.Let me also preface my comments by saying that I donât usually purchase pre-built computers, and I consider myself a DIY PC snob. Iâve only purchased one other pre-built in my life, but I’ve built more than a dozen. Iâm always going to have one quibble or another when it comes to a pre-built PC from any company, but 150+ consecutive days of striking out on a RTX 3080 is enough to drive anyone crazy. So I decided to take a chance on this, and after a week of ownership (and emails with Skytech customer service), I can say that Iâm pleased with my purchase.I was going to make a dedicated pros/cons list, but Iâll simply list my comments without necessarily strictly categorizing them into âprosâ or âcons.â Some of the points are more nuanced with a mix of praise and criticism.* Excellent packaging with protective foam inside and out.* Beautiful white chassis (In Win 101) + 3x ARGB fans with remote fan control. If I were building this PC from scratch, this would not be my case of choice. Unlike cases with a mesh front, the In Winâs solid front panel restricts airflow. However, I think itâs undeniable that this particular case/fan combo is pretty great in the looks department.* Fast Ryzen 5 5600X processor. They could have easily gone with a cheaper 3600 or 3600X from the previous generation, so kudos to Skytech for sticking with the latest (Ryzen 5000/Zen 3).* Good 1TB NVMe m.2 SSD (WD Blue SN550). This is not necessarily the fastest nor best SSD available today, but it is plenty adequate for a gaming system. Users with specific endurance or speed requirements (for extremely large file transfers, etc) should probably swap out the SSD.* Zotac RTX 3080. My particular GPU model happens to be a Zotac Trinity OC, and I see that others have reported receiving PNY models in their systems. Again, similar to the SSD, this is not the best RTX 3080 on the market, but it is certainly not the worst either.* Cheap motherboard (ASRock B550M/AC). This is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) B550 motherboards on the market. Itâs too bad that they used a mATX motherboard in a case thatâs compatible with a regular ATX-sized motherboard. But even the worst AM4 motherboard these days is adequate for most users, and I do understand that they have to cut costs somewhere.* 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600 RAM. Letâs start with the positives: Not all pre-built companies care about setting up their systems with proper RAM configurations. E.g. some of the larger OEMs will only install 1x8GB module in single-channel mode. Thankfully, this PC came with the memory installed in the correct motherboard slots for dual-channel operation (Slots 2+4). That being said, the RAM would have been a huge demerit in my book if not for my excellent experience with Skytech CS. Even though the memory is rated for DDR4-3600 speeds, the RAM arrived manually under-clocked by 200MHz in the BIOS to DDR4-3400. It seems this was done because the system would not POST at DDR4-3600 with XMP enabled. So even though the RAM was obviously faulty (or incompatible with the motherboard), the technician had decided to install it with a lower speed anyway. Thankfully, Skytech sent a replacement kit right away and it hasnât had any issues.* Gigabyte 750W Gold power supply. Again, not my power supply of choice due to some glaring manufacturing flaws, but it is adequate for this system. Actually, I had been expecting an ugly PSU with ketchup and mustard cables, so Iâm relieved this PSU has flat, black cables. Skytech actually neglected to include several non-modular cables with it. After I raised the issue with Skytech CS, they sent replacement along with the replacement RAM kit. Great, responsive customer service!* Good build quality overall and impeccable cable management. My only gripe is that some of the cables (USB/RGB) were hot-glued to the motherboard to ensure that they werenât damaged or dislodged during shipping. GamersNexus would have a field day with this. There has to be another way.To wrap things up, this is a perfectly good PC. If there is anything noteworthy about it, it would be the standout customer service. I traded emails with Skytech CS for a week, and I donât think there was a single time when they didnât respond within a day. Bravo, Skytech!
JP –
Bricked motherboard not even a week.
For context, I built my previous gaming PC. After I decided to upgrade, I used pcpartpicker. At the time I was building my list, the price to parts ratio was pretty close. I made the jump to purchase this PC so I don’t really have to worry about anything else. Boy was I wrong. Shipment was fine, when it got here, I made sure everything is seated correctly, etc. Got this on Friday the 16th. All is well, I was happy and satisfied. Thursday came Dec 22. PC suddenly will not turn on. I do have experience in fixing PCs so I tried to find out what went wrong. At first, I thought it was a power issue. I borrowed a PSU tester to see if the PSU is busted, that part is fine. Next, I thought it might be a motherboard but we didn’t want to jump into conclusion. We took out all the parts CPU, GPU, RAM and put it on another board. It works fine. Now we put it back on the board that came with this PC. It runs for 10 secs, then shuts down. No fan spinning again so back to square 1. It’s the motherboard. We tried to fix/upgrade the BIOS and same thing, runs for 10 secs then shuts down. Granted, my issue is pretty unfortunate and it is kind of rare tbh. I am now returning this PC before I sink money replacing something when it is still under warranty. It’s not a good sign if I am already having an issue not even a week into receiving it. It spent more time waiting for it to ship than getting my hands on it. I have been in contact with Skytech themselves regarding this, and they were ready to offer replacement part so that’s a good sign, but if you are not really tech savvy or not wanting to get your hands dirty just incase something goes wrong, it is another couple of weeks of no watching cat videos on youtube while you play minecraft with rtx on.