Origin Millennium PC Review

When you’re buying for a gaming PC, you person a fewer choices. You tin get a mass-produced prebuilt gaming PC from the likes of Alienware, oregon you tin get an expensive-but-awesome boutique build. The Origin Millennium is determination successful the middle. This is an highly high-end gaming system, to beryllium sure, but it lacks the benignant of off-the-wall plan connection that you’d spot successful thing from Maingear oregon Falcon Northwest.

Instead, the Origin Millennium is conscionable a coagulated custom-ordered gaming rig with modular components. It’s inactive the benignant of happening you tin physique yourself, but without the headache of really getting successful determination and routing the cables. Oh, and you mightiness person to woody with carrying a elephantine woody crate up to your flat similar I did.

Design and Features

The Origin Millennium is simply a big computer. This is simply a full-tower ATX lawsuit and for immoderate reason, Origin decided to marque it adjacent much imposing with these alloy bars connected each 4 corners of the system. The case, by itself, weighs 33 pounds, and that’s earlier adding dense high-end components similar the MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio, a powerfulness proviso and a 360mm AIO. Add successful the woody crate the strategy was shipped with, and I decidedly needed assistance to get this machine up to my third-floor walkup apartment.

The metallic bars connected the country besides contiguous a unsocial occupation for really getting into the system. Now, the configuration I was sent for reappraisal won’t truly request to beryllium upgraded for a fewer years, but you’ll inactive request to unfastened it occasionally for maintenance. However, the metallic barroom connected the backmost near country blocks the solid broadside sheet from coming disconnected smoothly. When I opened the strategy for the archetypal clip to get the weird small styrofoam insert retired of the system, I legitimately winced erstwhile the solid broadside sheet deed that metallic barroom erstwhile I was removing it.

To beryllium fair, those metallic bars are attached with allen bolts, truthful you tin easy region them, but that’s inactive much enactment than getting into a gaming PC similar this should take.

Once you bash get inside, though, it’s an incredibly spacious build. Even with the monolithic 14-inch graphics card, determination is simply a ton of bare space, allowing for fantabulous airflow. What’s more, determination are hardly immoderate wires visible, but for what needs to beryllium plugged into the system. Origin has done an fantabulous occupation with cablegram management, neatly arranging each of the cables down the motherboard tray and channeling them done grommets close wherever they request to beryllium plugged into the existent system.

However, successful the involvement of hiding wires, Origin made an unusual decision. The lawsuit has 3 120mm fans mounted successful the beforehand of the lawsuit for intake, but the wires powering those fans, on with the beforehand sheet connectors, are routed underneath the system. That means there’s a large bundle of wires that really runs underneath and extracurricular the computer. I’m inactive trying to determine if this is genius cablegram absorption oregon thing wholly unhinged. It’s apt determination successful the middle, but adjacent if it results successful not seeing instrumentality cables, it’s casual to ideate a concern wherever the wires get caught connected thing and break.

When you configure the system, you’ll beryllium capable to take to person the beforehand ports and powerfulness fastener mounted connected the apical oregon the bottommost of the case, the 1 I was sent had everything mounted connected the bottom. This is going to beryllium the mode to spell if you program connected having this PC connected your desk, but I similar the enactment to person them mounted up apical for anyone that plans to enactment this happening successful their surviving country oregon connected the level nether their desk.

That beforehand sheet has 4 USB-A and 1 USB-C port, which is much than enough. Luckily, determination are adjacent much ports astir the backmost – shocking, I know. The Origin Millennium I tested is strapped with the Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero, the aforesaid committee I usage to trial components, truthful it's packed with rear ports. There are 4 USB-C ports successful the back, on with 6 USB-A ports, 2 ethernet, and an HDMI larboard for onboard graphics. The RTX 5090 besides has 3 DisplayPort and 1 HDMI, which is modular for Blackwell GPUs.

All successful the Configuration

No substance however awesome it looks, the configuration I was sent for reappraisal is astir apt overkill for astir people. Luckily, Origin PC is simply a shaper that lets you configure the nonstop strategy you want, which is past built-to-order. Yeah, you could spend the $7,241 for this nonstop configuration and person a high-end rig that’ll past for years, but you don’t person to.

Instead, for astir people, the saccharine spot is astir apt going to beryllium a configuration with an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, 32GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, which is inactive much than susceptible of 4K gaming, but with a overmuch little $3,392 terms tag. That’s inactive benignant of precocious for a gaming PC, but that conscionable comes with the territory of this benignant of gaming rig.

To physique that mid-range mentation of the strategy yourself, adjacent with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT having an inflated price, you’re looking astatine astir $2,397 total. That means you’re paying astir a 1000 bucks for Origin to assemble the PC for you. Or, for the high-end configuration that I reviewed, you could enactment that unneurotic with off-the-shelf parts for astir $6,506 connected PCPartPicker astatine the clip of writing. Either way, you’re spending a sizeable magnitude connected the operation of the system.

That seems similar a immense premium to wage for idiosyncratic other to physique a system, and portion Origin did a bully occupation gathering this rig, it’s not that simple. On apical of the modular 1 twelvemonth warranty you get with beauteous overmuch immoderate prebuilt gaming PC, Origin besides offers beingness support. This fundamentally means you tin scope retired for escaped lawsuit enactment connected immoderate contented that comes up successful the future. In fact, you tin adjacent nonstop the strategy to Origin and they’ll upgrade it for free, provided you wage for the caller parts.

Plus, that annoying woody crate I whined astir earlier is thing that is wholly unsocial to Origin. If you’re good with paying the other shipping outgo associated with a elephantine wood box, it is fundamentally the safest mode to vessel a desktop PC that I’ve ever seen. Just support successful caput that it’s very heavy.

Whether oregon not this is each worthy the other currency depends wholly connected however comfy you are with gathering and maintaining a PC, oregon whether oregon not you privation to walk the clip required to bash it. Plus, Origin did a large occupation with cablegram management.

Performance

Corsair sent maine an Origin Millennium with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64GB of RAM, truthful it is an incredibly almighty gaming PC. However, with the magnitude of currency you’d beryllium spending to get this benignant of configuration, it benignant of needs to be.

I tested the Origin Millennium astatine 4K, and astir each crippled broke the three-digit barrier, and that’s without framework generation. Only 2 games failed to interruption 100 fps: Assassins Creed Shadows with 75 fps and Metro Exodus astatine 97 fps. The second makes consciousness arsenic a ray traced workload that I trial without upscaling, arsenic it lone supports DLSS – and an aged mentation astatine that.

With AC: Shadows, however, that 75 fps is an fantabulous baseline that makes the crippled much than playable, but you tin perfectly alteration framework procreation to boost the framerate adjacent further, astatine the outgo of latency. Enabling framework procreation makes the framework complaint leap up to 132 fps, but besides increases the latency to 42ms, from 33ms. That’s a beauteous important leap successful latency, but it’s inactive not going to beryllium noticeable for astir people, particularly successful a single-player crippled similar Assassins Creed.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a akin story. I tested the crippled with the Ray Tracing Ultra preset with DLSS acceptable to show mode. Without framework procreation the Millennium spat retired 127 fps with 23ms of latency. However, with Multi-Frame Generation acceptable to 4x, that framework complaint jumped up to 373 fps, with latency lone expanding to 28ms. That’s a higher framework complaint than my 240Hz show tin adjacent handle.

But adjacent without framework generation, 127 fps successful Cyberpunk 2077 is impressive. There aren’t truly immoderate games retired determination close present that you’d ever person to interest astir compromising connected representation prime to play, astatine slightest with this configuration. Even highly dense games without framework gen tin get precocious framework rates.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra