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Digital Trends #1 - 9/15/08

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    Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 5:09pm

Digital Trends AVADirect Gaming PC Workstation Review - 9/15/08

This is our second review of our SFF Gaming and Workstation system.  There is just so much hardware goodness stuffed inside a small case that it is unbelievable.  While the price may through off a few, the build quality and utter performance is second to none.
 
"AVA Direct builds custom gaming systems to order, and our review sample turned out to be the computer equivalent of a 22-ounce filet mignon paired with a $500 bottle of merlot. Not surprisingly, the $6,200 amalgamation of high-end hardware blew nearly every game we could throw at it out of the water, with build quality and attention to detail from this manufacturer to match. This specific system build doubles as both a workstation and a gaming PC which explains why Xeon processors were used."  -Nick Mokey
 

Review Date:  9/15/08

Editor's Rating:  7.5/10

 

System Specs

 

AVADirect SFF Gaming PC/Workstation

Price: $6,290

Case:

SILVERSTONE, Sugo SG04B-H Mid-Tower Case, mATX

Processor:

INTEL, 2 x Xeon™ X5450 Quad-Core Processor 3.0GHz, LGA771, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB L2 cache

Motherboard:

SUPERMICRO, X7DCA-L, LGA771 /2, Intel® 5100, 1333MHz FSB, DDR2-667 ECC 48GB /6, PCIe x16, SATA 3.0 Gbit/s RAID 5 /6, HDA, GbLAN /2, mATX

Video Card:

XFX, GeForce® GTX 280, GTX 280 602MHz, 1GB DDR3 2210MHz

Memory:

KINGSTON, 16GB (4 x 4GB) ValueRAM™ Dual-Rank PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz CL5 1.8V

Hard Drive:

RAID 5 3x SEAGATE, 1TB Barracuda ES.2, SAS, 7200 RPM, 16MB Cache, 3.5-Inch

HIGHPOINT, RocketRAID 2640x4 SAS/SATA 3 Gb/s RAID Controller, 4-port, Levels 0/1/5/10

Optical Drive:

LG ELECTRONICS, GGW-H20L Black 6x/8x/24x BD/DVD±RW/CD-RW Blu-ray Disc™ Burner w/ Lightscribe

Cooling:

SWIFTECH, 2 x MCX-VPro™ Universal Heatsink w/ 80mm Fan

Power Supply:

SILVERSTONE, Strider ST1000 Modular Power Supply, 1000W, 80 PLUS®

Operating System:

MICROSOFT, Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition w/ SP1

 



Edited by MattSlagle - 09 Oct 2008 at 9:51am
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