A Tank of the Clones: A Deja Vu $750 Gaming PC

Chatreey has launched a tank-style mini Gaming PC boasting a twelfth Gen Intel Core i7 and an RTX 3070 at a powerful value level of ~$750 through AliExpress. Whereas this ultra-competitive pricing (spotted by Liliputing) might find yourself being a limited-time run, it makes Chatreey’s Tank Gaming PC fairly aggressive with different… near-identical trying Tank Gaming PCs in the marketplace, together with the AceMagic Tank 03 we coated two weeks in the past.

Wait, what? That is the very same case!

Seems, that is neither a coincidence nor a case of secret malice on the a part of Chatreey. Chatreey is merely one among many model names utilized by the previously-covered AceMagic, and their various model names embody NiPoGi and Kamrui as nicely. (If there are others, we’re at present unaware of them but in addition would not be shocked.) There might be some dodginess at play, although.

For instance, an RTX 3080 model of this PC is listed with a whopping 16GB of VRAM. That ought to sound actually odd to anyone aware of RTX 3080, since they’re capped at 12 GB VRAM. Even the 3080 Ti solely has 12 GB VRAM! Solely the RTX 3090 and 3090 Ti — or the more moderen RTX 4080 — have greater than 12GB of reminiscence. That makes this element within the itemizing greater than slightly questionable.

The RTX 3070 variations of this Mini PC are additionally being listed with 12GB of VRAM, which is definitely significantly greater than 3070’s actual 8GB VRAM, however in step with the 3060’s 12GB VRAM. Sure, that was one among Nvidia’s nice strikes, the place we obtained the RTX 3060 12GB (and later RTX 3060 8GB) whereas the quicker RTX 3070 was caught with solely 8GB of reminiscence.

Then once more, these are being offered in China, and there are quite a lot of attention-grabbing tweaks which have come in a foreign country over time. GTX 1060 5GB playing cards really exist, and apparently work. We have additionally heard of varied mods over time the place individuals have doubled the VRAM on an RTX 3070 to 16GB, and likewise we have heard of RTX 3080 playing cards with 8GB — in all probability playing cards the place 2GB of VRAM died attributable to crypto mining.

Mix the 2 and it is simply barely potential {that a} “RTX 3080 16GB” may exist. We would not rely on good driver help, nonetheless, and it’s miles extra doubtless an error within the itemizing’s specs. Alternatively, the RTX 3080 Ti Laptop computer GPU has specs which might be just like a desktop 3080, solely with 16GB on a 256-bit interface. Turning a type of right into a desktop card for a mini-ITX construct is one other risk. The pictures nonetheless clearly present an RTX 3080 Founders Version, so we’re again to dodginess.

Regardless of the case, supplied they really are utilizing RTX 30-Collection GPUs, Chatreey’s Tank Gaming PCs should be price shopping for. If these have inflated specs, nonetheless, we hope they make the suitable edits to the AliExpress listing to stop pointless confusion. Caveat emptor, as standard.