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Review: Scan 3XS Vengeance XTi

by Parm Mann on 22 May 2020, 14:00

Tags: SCAN, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

For the PC gaming enthusiast wanting to step up to 4K visuals, this is about as good as it gets.

Wanting to build the ultimate gaming PC in mid-2020? It would look something like the Scan 3XS Vengeance XTi.

This £3,300 base unit tops the gaming charts through a combination of 10th Gen Core i9-10900K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Guaranteed overclocks on both fronts serve as added incentive, and the supporting cast of 32GB DDR4-3200 and 2TB M.2 SSD help tick most of the relevant boxes for a modern, high-end base unit. For the PC gaming enthusiast wanting to step up to 4K visuals, this is about as good as it gets.

There isn't a lot Scan gets wrong using the latest components available from Intel and Nvidia, yet at these price points there are question marks surrounding future-proofing. 10 cores, 20 threads isn't groundbreaking given what's already on offer from AMD, the absence of forward-looking PCIe 4.0 stifles upgradability, and though GeForce RTX 2080 Ti remains king of high-quality gaming today, that crown will soon pass to next-generation GPUs codenamed RDNA2 (AMD) and Ampere (Nvidia).

Bottom line: there's always a temptation to wait for upcoming tech, but if you have to have the fastest gaming PC, and you have to have it now, they don't come any quicker than Scan's 3XS Vengeance XTi.

The Good
  
The Bad
Ultimate gaming credentials
Cheaper than building it yourself
Choice of overclocked or stock CPU settings
Tidy implementation with zero bloatware
Three-year warranty
  
Gets hot and thirsty when overclocked
No forward-looking PCIe 4.0



Scan 3XS Vengeance XTi

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The 3XS Vengeance XTi is available to purchase from Scan Computers.

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Posted by philehidiot - Fri 22 May 2020 15:41
I was looking at those benchmarks and thinking “let's just wait for the power consumption figures”.

Yeh, wasn't disappointed.

When you can get future proofing, similar performance, cooler running and often a lower price from AMD, you'd be mad in many ways to go Intel. There are definitely reasons to do so, but they are fewer and fewer with each 14nm rehash.

From a personal perspective, I'd like to see what happens to those gaming results with a 2080 S in the new Intel machine as that would allow a more apples to apples comparison with the AMD CPUs. But that's just me and it's an unreasonable ask.
Posted by ohmaheid - Fri 22 May 2020 17:12
88 degrees with a top-notch 360 AIO cooler, and over 400w. AND £3,300
Gulp.
Gaming for idiots.
Posted by Gentle Viking - Fri 22 May 2020 18:26
That cooler, and its hoses coming off the head like that, across the RAM.
That would mess so bad with my OCD i would be bouncing off walls and sealing in a short time.
Posted by 3dcandy - Sat 23 May 2020 08:38
ohmaheid
88 degrees with a top-notch 360 AIO cooler, and over 400w. AND £3,300
Gulp.
Gaming for idiots.

Gaming for idiots from a few years back - except it's 2020
Posted by Helios451 - Sat 23 May 2020 10:57
For such an expensive and hand built piece of niche market kit I would have expected the visible power cables to be a bit tidier. Also, as the review says itself, performance is good but not exceptional. And that is at the expense of high power demands, high temperatures and lots of money.

So, I don't agree that “For the PC gaming enthusiast wanting to step up to 4K visuals, this is about as good as it gets”.

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