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Review: Chillblast Fusion Whisper Mini

by Parm Mann on 23 February 2012, 07:17 4.0

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Benchmarks: GPU

Our sample Fusion Whisper Mini arrived equipped with a 1GB Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti Phantom graphics card that's seemingly well-suited to full-HD gaming. At a 1080p resolution with high-quality image settings, the single graphics card returns decent frame rates in games such as Aliens vs. Predator and Just Cause 2.

This is clearly a gaming-grade PC, but there is a limited number of GPU configuration options. Would-be buyers can choose to downgrade to integrated Intel graphics, or a passively-cooled GeForce GT 520, and if you need to power four displays, there's also an option for dual GeForce GTS 450s in SLI.

The only upgrade is a Gainward GTX 560 Ti with a 2GB frame buffer. For a quiet, low-power PC, we'd liked to have seen an option for a Radeon HD 7000-series card.