Pioneer Computers DreamVision 32-inch All-in-One Gaming PC 7X
A true gaming all-in-one PC, but does the dream live up to the vision?
We were excited to test Pioneer Computers’ 32-inch gaming PC, predominantly because we’ve never seen an all-inone (AIO) that also manages to pack in a full gaming rig around the back — which gives you full access to swap out components right up to the motherboard itself. However, weighing in at a hefty 30.6kg, this PC is an absolute beast.
Between the oversized screen, the small detachable feet that need to be screwed on and the shortish power cable, it’s a bit of a work out to get this machine set up. You’ll need a spacious and sturdy desk to sit it on, since the massive screen wears its PC on its back, meaning the it has a cumbersome depth of 18cm (25cm, if you add the full expanse of the feet). We have to say that, even when set up on a sufficiently roomy desk, the 1080p 32-inch display is almost too large to use as a general PC screen. Windows scales the icons and taskbar contents to a childishly-large size, and for any general web browsing or work tasks, the top third of the screen sits outside your natural peripheral vision (unless you sit 3–4 feet back), rendering it largely useless.
The powerful Intel Core i7-7700K CPU inside did a good job of bulldozing through general home and work related tasks. Very high PCMark 8 scores of 5,165 and 5,608 in the respective accelerated Home and Work tests are backed up by one of our highest (labs-recorded) scores of 959 on Cinebench’s multi-threaded CPU benchmark. Add to this a generous 512GB SSD connected via PCIe that can read sequential data at 1325MB/s and write it at 584MB/s and you have an unusually overpowered work PC.
It’s also fairly good at gaming, too. The PC’s 6GB desktop Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GPU managed a Fire Strike Extreme score of 6,004, breezing past Gigabyte’s similarly specced P55W v6 laptop (issue 436, page 47), which scored 4,942, though it remained some way off MSI’s GT83VR Titan SLI rig (435, page 24), which used it’s two GTX 1080 GPUs in SLI to pull the ludicrous score of 13,921.
Testing real-world games was equally rewarding, pegging averages of 62fps in The Division’s challenging benchmark on Ultra/1080p settings. This stands up nicely against the Gigabyte P55W v6’s score of 49.8fps and the MSI GT83VR’s score of 60.2. The DreamVision ploughs through older titles like Metro: Last Light and Tomb Raider, achieving averages of 91 and 162fps on 1080p/ Ultra settings, almost keeping up with the GT83VR’s 113 and 198fps.
We were initially afraid that this AIO’s large screen wasn’t ideal as a generalpurpose PC, but most of those concerns were abated when we saw games running on it. If you have the cash to splash on a dedicated gaming rig, then this massive-screened all-in-one is undoubtedly an option worth considering — although with a little research and some elbow grease, you’d be able to piece together a similarly sized rig with equivalent performance without much difficulty, albeit not one in this singlepiece package.