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Pros
Pro Great gaming performance for the price
The Inspiron 5675 uses an RX 580 as a GPU which provides great gaming performance, comparable to the GeForce GTX 1060 while costing much less.
It manages to play most AAA games at ultra and at 1440p with great framerates. Battlefield 1 for example never went below 60 FPS at 1440p and ultra-high detail settings.
Pro Plenty of ports
There's a wide array of ports available on this PC. The back has ix USB-A ports, an Ethernet port, five audio input/output jacks, a pair of PS/2 ports, and two HDMI and DisplayPorts. On the front there are four more USB-A ports, an SD Card reader, a headphone jack, and a single USB-C port.
Pro Great understated design
The Dell Inspiron 5675 mixes a gaming rig design with a office-friendly look which surprisingly works. The case is made of metal shrouded in a silvery plastic shell and accented with angled vents that surround almost half of the case itself. Under the grills there's a bright blue light that looks great from all viewing angles.
Cons
Con Daily performance could be a little better
The Inspiron 5675 uses an AMD Ryzen 5 as a CPU which unfortunately falls a bit behind as far as performance goes compared to Intel CPUs around this price. This is reflected even on third-party benchmarks such as the Geekbench score, where the Ryzen 5 scores 3377 points compared to Intel Core i5's 4500 score.
All of this means that for day-to-day tasks like web browsing, editing files, etc. is kinda good but could have been better without increasing the price by much (if anything).
Con Not very easy to customize
While it's rather easy to open the case (you need to remove four screws), it's hard to feel welcome. Admittedly there's some space to make some expansions, like adding some extra RAM. But the Radeon RX 580 GPU is bolted in with a metal bracket and that requires a bit of extra patience to remove. The bracket itself is perfectly sized for the RX 580 GPU and might not work for a larger graphics card.
Con Slow read/write processes
Even though it has a luxuriously large 1TB HDD, it's unfortunately very slow when opening, saving, or moving large files and it's easy to see why. The Inspiron 5675's HDD has a read speed of 190MB/s and writing speeds of 195MB/s this is quite slow compared to pre-builts that use SSDs capable of hitting read speeds of 500+MB/s and write speeds of 448MB/s.
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