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Review: PC Specialist Vanquish Prodigy

by Parm Mann on 20 February 2013, 09:30 4.0

Tags: PC Specialist

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Test Methodology

Comparison Systems

System Name Chillblast Fusion Stealth Computer Planet ND 4000 PC Specialist Vanquish Prodigy Scan 3XS Z77 Performance Q10
Processor Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.3GHz Intel Core i7-3770K @ up to 3.9GHz Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz
Cooler Gelid Tranquillo Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Corsair Hydro Series H40 Thermalright Archon
Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H
Memory Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 Corsair Value Select 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 Kingston Hyper-X Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3
Memory Speed 10-10-10-27-2T @ 1,600MHz 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,333MHz 11-13-13-30-2T @ 2,400MHz 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz
Graphics Card Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 2GB Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB Palit GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Gainward GeForce GTX 660 Ti Phantom 2GB
Sound Card Onboard high-definition audio Onboard high-definition audio Onboard high-definition audio Onboard high-definition audio
Primary Storage 120GB Intel 330 SSD 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 120GB Kingston V300 SSD 120GB Corsair Force Series 3
Secondary Storage 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD N/A 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
Optical Drive LG Blu-ray Drive Samsung DVD Writer LG DVD Writer LG BH10LS38 Blu-ray Writer
PSU be quiet! Straight Power E9 CM (680W) Cooler Master GX Lite (700W) Corsair TX650 (650W) be quiet! Straight Power E9 CM (480W)
Chassis Fractal Design Define R4 Cooler Master CM 690 II Lite BitFenix Prodigy Corsair Obsidian Series 550D
Operating System Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Standard Warranty Two years (collect-and-return) Three years (one-year collect-and-return, one-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (one-month collect-and-return, one-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only)
Price From £1,200 From £950 From £899 From £1,120

Benchmarks

HEXUS PiFast Our number-crunching PiFast test is used to benchmark the computational power of each system's CPU.
Cinebench Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses as many cores as possible.
PCMark 7 PCMark 7 combines various single- and multi-threaded CPU, Graphics and HDD tests to score overall system performance.
Aliens vs. Predator 1,920x1,080 resolution, 2xAA, 16xAF, very high quality.
Just Cause 2 1,920x1,080 resolution, 4xAA, 16x AF, very high quality.
3DMark 11 Run using the 'extreme' preset.
Temperature Noted for CPU idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Power Consumption Noted for system idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Noise A PCE-318 noise level meter is placed at the front of the chassis. Noted for system idling, under Prime95 all-core load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.