SkyTech Archangel 3.0 Gaming Computer PC Desktop

10 reviews for SkyTech Archangel 3.0 Gaming Computer PC Desktop

1. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   R. F (verified owner) – 1 December 2021

   Showed up refurbished and busted – I bought one thinking I’ll finally be able to play some newer pc games. When it arrived the box was in good condition. I opened the top and grabbed the box of accessories and opened that first. Noticed that all the accessories were already opened and just thrown in the smaller box empty wrappers included. Looked like someone stuffed it all back in and decided they didn’t want it anymore. Next I pull out the pic itself. Looks beautiful. First thing I notice is there is a piece of tape on the glass panel that’s supposed to keep the door shut already cut. I took a closer look at the big box that it all arrived in and notice that there was a layer of tape underneath the sky tech company tape as if they originally taped it with clear tape but added their logo tape to hide the first layer of tape that had already been cut. I continue to open the case and see that the GPU is slanted downward toward the side tha is not mounted. When I tried to shut the glass panel it was misaligned with the hole and I had to lift up on the glass to get it to close fully. When I turn the Pc on I get black screen with green dots for a few seconds then it loads up into ordinary windows showing green dots a few more times during load up. Computer tells me the GPU is experiencing error code 43. (Hardware damage). Also compared the card that came with the computer certifying that it had been inspected with the only time stamp in the computers memory. The cert was written nearly 3 weeks after the only time stamp on the computer. So a totally bogus quality inspection. Contacted customer support, they tell me it must have been handled a little rough during shipping and they will get me a new one. In up to 3 weeks. They paid to ship it back and said they will put my new computer on expedited shipping after they receive my broken one and inspect it. Not happy with how long it’s taking to get a new computer but if the replacement turns out well and shows up timely I may yet chalk it up to bad luck but until I get what I paid for and in the condition I paid for it (new and functioning) I’m gonna suggest building one yourself or just steering clear of skytech. Update. Called back about a week after they received my computer they verified they received it but told me that they couldn’t get to inspecting it until after all the other computers that came in before it. I told them that I bought it brand new and it arrived broken and the guy on the phone tells me that it can’t be bumped ahead because they already have a lot of brand new factory broken PCs already ahead of it waiting to be inspected. That’s not a good sign. I told them to cancle the replacement and just refund me or I will get my bank involved. They did but I still would absolutely not buy anything from sky tech again. Terrible customer service and terrible quality product.

2. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   O. O (verified owner) – 25 December 2021

   Your Mileage May Vary – Given the world we’re living in, graphics cards are exceptionally difficult to come by; which makes buying pre-builts all the more attractive. Now, the computer arrived in fine shape. It boots. I can play Crysis. But the thing is, they put some weird model, janky Gigabyte 3090 into this thing. Again, it works, but by God it sounds like a jet engine if you just play Solitaire. Which is a real shame, cause the CPU comes all hooked up to a fancy schmancy AIO hooked up to a 360mm rad. Which is a complete waste with this banshee sitting next to it shrieking its face off. This wouldn’t be a huge problem because I planned on tinkering with cooling anyway. However, it turns out this specific model isn’t supported by any of the major water-cooling brands. EKWB? Nope. Corsair? Nuh uh. Alphacool??? Well, according to this one Reddit post one of their coolers intended for a different configuration 3090 will work on this one. It also turns out you have to order the damn thing from Germany, pay VAT, pay $80+ for shipping. Yada yada. So I will get this thing watercooled come hell or highwater, but it’s going to cost a lot more, and take much longer, than I had hoped. When you spend $4,200 + tax on a fine machine such as this, you’d hope/think that watercooling the graphics card wouldn’t be completely necessary. And if it is, you’d hope there’d be a fairly common GPU model to make that easier. Guess I lost the lottery when the tech was picking out parts. Shame this is what it takes just to get any parts at all, but that isn’t Skytech’s fault. Thank you for coming to my rant.

3. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   O. O (verified owner) – 31 December 2021

   Your Mileage May Vary – Given the world we’re living in, graphics cards are exceptionally difficult to come by; which makes buying pre-builts all the more attractive. Now, the computer arrived in fine shape. It boots. I can play Crysis. But the thing is, they put some weird model, janky Gigabyte 3090 into this thing. Again, it works, but by God it sounds like a jet engine if you just play Solitaire. Which is a real shame, cause the CPU comes all hooked up to a fancy schmancy AIO hooked up to a 360mm rad. Which is a complete waste with this banshee sitting next to it shrieking its face off. This wouldn’t be a huge problem because I planned on tinkering with cooling anyway. However, it turns out this specific model isn’t supported by any of the major water-cooling brands. EKWB? Nope. Corsair? Nuh uh. Alphacool??? Well, according to this one Reddit post one of their coolers intended for a different configuration 3090 will work on this one. It also turns out you have to order the damn thing from Germany, pay VAT, pay $80+ for shipping. Yada yada. So I will get this thing watercooled come hell or highwater, but it’s going to cost a lot more, and take much longer, than I had hoped. When you spend $4,200 + tax on a fine machine such as this, you’d hope/think that watercooling the graphics card wouldn’t be completely necessary. And if it is, you’d hope there’d be a fairly common GPU model to make that easier. Guess I lost the lottery when the tech was picking out parts. Shame this is what it takes just to get any parts at all, but that isn’t Skytech’s fault. Thank you for coming to my rant.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   G. E (verified owner) – 2 March 2022

   A good upgrade. – This thing is the embodiment of what I’d call a nerd’s/geek’s tank. I recently bought this as an upgrade from a PS4 (since I’m a firm believer that buying a console, a PS5 for 1K sounded ridiculous in my eyes) at the time so i figured to get more for my buck and get this beaut since it was on sale. What i can tell you so far there has been nothing wrong with it and I’ve been giving it torture since I’ve been playing. Two games i play is heavily modded fallout 4 and Arma 3 (creating huge battles). Arma 3 is understandably sometimes a little jittery from the huge number of AIs that are on the field, but other than that, it’s performance is as smooth as your imaginary girlfriend’s skin.

5. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   R. F (verified owner) – 11 March 2022

   Showed up refurbished and busted – I bought one thinking I’ll finally be able to play some newer pc games. When it arrived the box was in good condition. I opened the top and grabbed the box of accessories and opened that first. Noticed that all the accessories were already opened and just thrown in the smaller box empty wrappers included. Looked like someone stuffed it all back in and decided they didn’t want it anymore. Next I pull out the pic itself. Looks beautiful. First thing I notice is there is a piece of tape on the glass panel that’s supposed to keep the door shut already cut. I took a closer look at the big box that it all arrived in and notice that there was a layer of tape underneath the sky tech company tape as if they originally taped it with clear tape but added their logo tape to hide the first layer of tape that had already been cut. I continue to open the case and see that the GPU is slanted downward toward the side tha is not mounted. When I tried to shut the glass panel it was misaligned with the hole and I had to lift up on the glass to get it to close fully. When I turn the Pc on I get black screen with green dots for a few seconds then it loads up into ordinary windows showing green dots a few more times during load up. Computer tells me the GPU is experiencing error code 43. (Hardware damage). Also compared the card that came with the computer certifying that it had been inspected with the only time stamp in the computers memory. The cert was written nearly 3 weeks after the only time stamp on the computer. So a totally bogus quality inspection. Contacted customer support, they tell me it must have been handled a little rough during shipping and they will get me a new one. In up to 3 weeks. They paid to ship it back and said they will put my new computer on expedited shipping after they receive my broken one and inspect it. Not happy with how long it’s taking to get a new computer but if the replacement turns out well and shows up timely I may yet chalk it up to bad luck but until I get what I paid for and in the condition I paid for it (new and functioning) I’m gonna suggest building one yourself or just steering clear of skytech. Update. Called back about a week after they received my computer they verified they received it but told me that they couldn’t get to inspecting it until after all the other computers that came in before it. I told them that I bought it brand new and it arrived broken and the guy on the phone tells me that it can’t be bumped ahead because they already have a lot of brand new factory broken PCs already ahead of it waiting to be inspected. That’s not a good sign. I told them to cancle the replacement and just refund me or I will get my bank involved. They did but I still would absolutely not buy anything from sky tech again. Terrible customer service and terrible quality product.

6. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   R. R (verified owner) – 30 March 2022

   Arrived In Great Condition – Shipped And Received With In A Week

7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   G. E (verified owner) – 26 April 2022

   A good upgrade. – This thing is the embodiment of what I’d call a nerd’s/geek’s tank. I recently bought this as an upgrade from a PS4 (since I’m a firm believer that buying a console, a PS5 for 1K sounded ridiculous in my eyes) at the time so i figured to get more for my buck and get this beaut since it was on sale. What i can tell you so far there has been nothing wrong with it and I’ve been giving it torture since I’ve been playing. Two games i play is heavily modded fallout 4 and Arma 3 (creating huge battles). Arma 3 is understandably sometimes a little jittery from the huge number of AIs that are on the field, but other than that, it’s performance is as smooth as your imaginary girlfriend’s skin.

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   R. R (verified owner) – 1 June 2022

   Arrived In Great Condition – Shipped And Received With In A Week

9. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   I. G (verified owner) – 9 September 2022

   Came dead on arrival – First off I did all my own diagnosing from there web site and help from the internet to figure it out I came to the conclusion that it was a bad motherboard and confirmed by skytech tech support once I got ahold of someone the tech support was great 5 stars but originally I was on hold and went for a call back and the guy just breathed very loudly and for about 10-15 seconds never responded to me then hung up that was 2 hours then sat on hold for about another 2 hours so that 4 hours of my day wasted but the second guy was great but you should have to stay on hold but I wish it didn’t come as a very expensive paper weight but things happen it was very well packed and no damage on the shipping boxes my only complaint would be the parts that it came with were bottom of the barrel gigabyte parts price checked and it was about $960 worth of parts not what I was expecting form what should have come from my research should have been close to $1150-1200 with of parts which is what makes this prebuilt attractive for $1300 ooo well I had to return and just am going to build one with better parts for about 100 dollars more with a better power supply and a 3070 graphics card so I guess it will all work out I think the end hope you don’t get a brick best of luck

10. 

    Rated 3 out of 5

    I. G (verified owner) – 10 December 2022

    Came dead on arrival – First off I did all my own diagnosing from there web site and help from the internet to figure it out I came to the conclusion that it was a bad motherboard and confirmed by skytech tech support once I got ahold of someone the tech support was great 5 stars but originally I was on hold and went for a call back and the guy just breathed very loudly and for about 10-15 seconds never responded to me then hung up that was 2 hours then sat on hold for about another 2 hours so that 4 hours of my day wasted but the second guy was great but you should have to stay on hold but I wish it didn’t come as a very expensive paper weight but things happen it was very well packed and no damage on the shipping boxes my only complaint would be the parts that it came with were bottom of the barrel gigabyte parts price checked and it was about $960 worth of parts not what I was expecting form what should have come from my research should have been close to $1150-1200 with of parts which is what makes this prebuilt attractive for $1300 ooo well I had to return and just am going to build one with better parts for about 100 dollars more with a better power supply and a 3070 graphics card so I guess it will all work out I think the end hope you don’t get a brick best of luck