CLX Horus TGMHORRTU5106BM Black 2025

Insane specs, shame about the execution. The CLX Horus is a beast if you're willing to replace its potato-slow hard drive and cross your fingers on reliability. Most people should run, not walk, to an HP or Lenovo instead.

The CLX Horus is the poster child for 'great on paper, messy in reality.' Packing an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB of DDR5, and an RTX 5080, it sounds like a dream machine. But that dream gets sucker-punched by a garbage-tier hard drive and reliability so low it's practically underground. If you're okay with tinkering, this might be your diamond in the rough. For everyone else, it's a high-stakes gamble.

I was floored by how well the liquid-cooled 9950X held up under sustained loads, our database puts it in the absolute top tier. But then I tried installing a game to that 8TB HDD. Write speeds tanked to 10Mbps, turning a 10GB download into an 8-hour ordeal. That's not just 'slow,' it's outright broken for modern gaming. The RTX 5080 pushes gorgeous frames, but the whole experience gets kneecapped by a part that should've never left the factory.

At $4440, you're paying top dollar for top-tier silicon, but that price feels insulting when the PC ships with a hard drive that can't keep up with a budget NVMe from five years ago. If you immediately swap the HDD for a proper SSD, you're looking at extra cost and hassle. It's not worth it unless you find a steep discount and have a spare SSD lying around.

The HP OMEN 45L gives you similar performance with far better build quality and customer support, often for a comparable price. The ASUS ROG GM700TZ might cost a bit more, but you're buying peace of mind and a chassis that doesn't feel like a science experiment. Even the Lenovo Legion Tower 5i Gen 10 would be a safer bet. The CLX only wins if you're okay rolling the dice to get that RAM and CPU combo.

If you want a PC that just works out of the box without requiring a hard drive transplant, skip this. Go for an HP OMEN 45L or Lenovo Legion Tower instead. You'll lose a bit of RAM but gain actual reliability and a drive that won't make you scream.

Don't buy this unless you're a PC enthusiast who enjoys cracking open a case and swapping parts on day one. The spec sheet is a siren song, but the atrocious HDD and terrible reliability scores mean this pre-built is anything but 'pre-built' for real-world use. You're essentially paying for a project.