Overclockers UK Titan Neutron Micro-ATX Gaming PC (w/ GTX 1060)

The Titan Neutron is built into a Raijintek Styx Classic chassis. This is a classy-looking case with an unfussy appearance. There are no external bays at the front, with the solid metal fascia broken only by the power switch at the top and logo at the bottom. A pair of USB 3 ports and audio minijacks sit on the top front edge, with a ventilation grille taking up the majority of the top.

There's a mysterious slit on the right-hand edge, which is in fact an orifice for a slot-loading notebook optical drive. However, this was not included in our sample, and we're pretty sure you won't miss it very often, if at all, now that virtually all PC games are downloads.

This isn't really a chassis designed for frequent upgrade, either. There is no thumbscrew-based or tool-free access to the interior. Instead, it will be necessary to remove four screws on each panel to lift it out, and then six to take off the top lid for better access to the graphics card.

The interior is neat enough, but getting your fingers past the large air cooler to the RAM will require some dexterity.

The chassis takes the now fairly common strategy of positioning the motherboard “upside down”, so the ports are at the bottom, with expansion cards above, although the power supply remains at the top. The PSU is a relatively modest 450W unit from Super Flower, which will be perfectly adequate for the components included, and considering that there isn't much option for major upgrade either.

  
The motherboard in question is an Asus H110M-K, which is based around Intel's H110 chipset (the clue is in the name). This provides support for the latest sixth-generation Intel processors, but is otherwise “lite” on features.

In particular, there are just two DIMM slots, and a single x16 PCI Express 3.0 slot, with the remaining two PCI Express slots only supporting 1x and PCI Express 2.0.

Overclockers UK hasn't completely pushed the boat out with the CPU. The Intel 6400 sits at the bottom of the Skylake 6th-generation Core i5 processor range. It's quad-core and runs at a nominal 2.7GHz, with one or two cores able to hit 3.3GHz, or all four 3.1GHz, but there's no Hyper-Threading (being an i5 instead of i7), so quad-core means four physical cores only, not eight virtual ones.

This should still be a decent basis for a gaming rig. The CPU is kept in check by a large Alpenföhn Sella heatpipe-based CPU cooler, which is pleasantly silent in operation.

The memory allocation is relatively frugal, too. It may be 2,400MHz DDR4, but only 8GB is supplied, which is adequate, but 16GB would have been more future proofed.

With just two DIMM slots, all the memory will need to be replaced if you do wish to upgrade. The motherboard's maximum is 32GB.

Overclockers UK has opted for capacity over speed with the storage. A 1TB Seagate Desktop SSHD is the only inclusion. This is actually a hybrid 7,200rpm hard disk with 8GB of MLC NAND Flash on board as a permanent cache.

In theory, this means frequently-used software is loaded as rapidly as if it were a SSD, but without the expense of having a large-capacity Flash-based storage device. It's a sensible choice for a budget gaming rig, where the massive size of contemporary titles can soon fill up a 500GB drive.

The Titan Neutron relies on the Asus motherboard's audio. This is a Realtek ALC887 eight-channel chipset, although with only three minijacks on the rear the ports on the front top edge of the chassis will need to be retasked to drive the full 7.1-channel surround capability.
  
Aside from these audio ports, the back panel sports four USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0, and a single Gigabit LAN. There's DVI and VGA for the processor's on-board graphics (not in use for this system), plus PS/2 mouse and keyboard.

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