PCSpecialist Helio Ultra Review (9700X + 4070S)

1. Introduction2. Synthetic Benchmarks3. Gaming4. Thermals, Noise & Power5. Final Thoughts6. View All Pages

The Helio Ultra prebuilt gaming desktop from PCSpecialist is the first we've seen from the company to feature one of AMD's latest generation processors. This machine is packing a Ryzen 7 9700X alongside a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super Aero OC graphics card and 32GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 memory running at 6400MT/s. While many gamers out there are eagerly awaiting news on the upcoming X3D 9000 series Ryzen CPUs, not everyone can wait. For those wanting to pick up a system right now, is the Helio Ultra a decent option?

Timestamps

00:00 Start
00:41 AMD’s Silicon
01:15 Is this for you?
01:32 Pricing & warranty
01:50 System spec details / Rear I/O
04:31 SSD – and some findings
05:43 Power supply
06:04 The AIO cooler
06:34 The Case
08:18 System appeal discussion
09:55 Cinebench Multicore
10:49 3DMark Time Spy
11:17 AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth
11:34 PCMark 10
12:08 Real World Gaming
12:23 Call Of Duty
12:51 Red Dead Redemption 2
13:22 Forza Horizon 5
13:50 Cyberpunk 2077
14:13 Assassins Creed Mirage
14:35 F1 2024
15:07 Thermals, Noise and Power
16:54 Closing Thoughts

Specification

• Case –  PCS Lumin ARGB Mid Tower Case (White) (PWM)
• Processor – AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• Motherboard – Asus Prime X670-P WIFI
• Memory – 32GB Corsair Dominator Titanium (6400MT/s)
• Graphics Card – 12GB Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4070 Super Aero OC
• Storage – 2TB Samsung 990 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD
• Power Supply – Corsair 850w RMx
• Processor Cooling – PCS Frostflow 240 Series ARGB Liquid Cooler

The core specs are confirmed in the following CPU-Z and GPU-Z screenshots:

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