As such, AOC, a name we all would connect with monitors of great quality, decided to enter the gaming PC race along with the launch of the new Honor T300G, a machine that seems to be trying the middle ground between a prominent gaming look and some internal components which are slightly out of the norm.
So what does this new contender run? Inside the Honor T300G is actually a "mobile" motherboard, which is quite the first revelation. This board supports a heady 14-core Intel Core i7-13650HX processor. You'll be very surprised and somehow suspicious as the processes are mostly attached to a laptop of high-end performance. Then, it is paired with a desktop-class NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, bringing along 16GB of VRAM. Convention seems to be flouted here.
Now, to keep this Intel chip cool, AOC packs the T300G with a dual-tower cooler. Its system powers up from a 500-watt 80 PLUS certified power supply. For memory and storage, you'll find within the machine a huge 32GB DDR5 RAM and a high-speed 1TB SSD connected through PCIe 4.0. This combination should amount to a pretty responsive yet capable gaming experience.
This case is relatively compact at 16 liters and quite nice for fitting into different setups, as it is much smaller than most. It could be considered somewhat understated for a gaming machine. Connectivity, however, is definitely not lacking.
The front panel provides access to:
- Two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports
- One USB 2.0 Type-A port
- A microphone port
- Commodity line-out jack for your audio
Flip it over, and you'll find, interestingly enough, even more impressive connectivity options:
- Four additional USB ports of the 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A standard
- Two more USB ports of the 2.0 Type-A category
- A versatile USB Type-C port
- DisplayPort 1.4 for your monitor
- An Ethernet port for wired internet
- Two HDMI 2.0 ports
- Three standard 3.5mm audio connectors for speakers and more
For all those who have fallen at the feet of this combination in terms of components and design, the price of the AOC Honor T300G is $1110. For AOC, this is an interesting first move in the gaming PC domain as they have taken an entirely different approach to system configuration.
