PCSpecialist Odin i7 Ti Air Review (12700K/3070 Ti)

1. Introduction2. Test Setup3. Cinebench R23, AIDA64 & PCMark 104. Time Spy & CrystalDiskMark5. Gaming Benchmarks6. Thermals, Noise & Power7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

As part of PCSpecialist's next-day range, the Odin i7 Ti Air is designed to offer a well-balanced spec at a fair price-point – in this case, £1849. It's not a small investment by any means, but that money gets you an i7-12700K processor, RTX 3070 Ti graphics card, 32GB of DDR4 memory and a total of 3TB of storage space (1TB SSD and 3TD hard drive.)

It certainly sounds good on paper, and we were not disappointed during our testing. The Odin i7 Ti Air zipped through our benchmark suite, with impressive Cinebench and PCMark 10 scores, while its gaming performance is also just as good as we'd hope. The system crunched through every single game we tested at 1440p, with frame rates not dipping below the 70FPS region.

There are a couple of areas we would want to tweak however. First, opting for a motherboard that comes with built-in WiFi would just help free up that lower PCIe slot should you be looking to add a number of expansion cards. It’s only going to be a small percentage of people who would look to do this, but for some it would definitely help.

The PSU is another area that I would also potentially look to change, throwing in a higher efficiency unit like an 80+ Gold rated supply. We had no issues with the Corsair CX650M during our testing, but it does feel a touch on the low-end of things considering the choice of CPU and GPU.

To see if I could put this system together myself at a lower price-point, I hopped on over to PCPartPicker, dropped in the exact same components and found that, give or take £20, you could build this system yourself for around the same price. Don’t forget, though, that PCSpecialist is building the system and shipping it to you, and including a 3-year warranty, for basically the same money as it would cost to build this system yourself – quite a remarkable feat from PCS!

Overall then, the value is there, the build quality is there, and there’s also none of the hassle of building it yourself. The Odin i7 Ti Air provides more than enough performance and value, with room for upgrades for when you eventually need them. A couple of small tweaks would improve it further, but if you're looking for a quality prebuilt PC, this will serve you very well indeed.

You can buy the PCSpecialist Odin i7 Ti Air directly from PCSpecialist for £1849 HERE.

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Pros

• Excellent for 1080p and 1440p gaming.
• Build quality.
• Value.
• Clear upgrade path.
• Warranty / Free delivery.

Cons

• Only a Bronze-rated PSU.
• No onboard motherboard WiFi.

KitGuru says: For £1849, there's plenty of value on offer from the PCSpecialist Odin i7 Ti Air. With a couple of small changes this would be knocking on the door for our top award.

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