October 28, 2011
Gordon Mah Ung

AVADirect Silent Gaming PC Review

AVADirect took gaming to heart with its silent PC. Besides overclocking its 3.3GHz Core i5-2500K to 4.7GHz using a Prolimatech Megahalems cooler, AVADirect matches that chip with Asus’s three-slot ENGTX580 card. With its beefy build and giant fans, the yuge ENGTX580 is generally intended for overclocking, but if you don’t overclock, you can run the card quietly. So damn quiet, in fact, that the fans on the ENGTX580 don’t spool up to any noticeable level.

CONFIGURATION

Define Series R4, No PSU, ATX, Black, Mid Tower Case
Tower Case
Fractal Design Define Series R4, No PSU, ATX, Black, Mid Tower Case
TR-600, 600W, No Modular, ATX Power Supply
Power Supply
THERMALTAKE TR-600, 600W, No Modular, ATX Power Supply
1TB Barracuda ST1000DM003, 7200 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 64MB cache, 3.5-Inch HDD
Storage Drive
SEAGATE 1TB Barracuda ST1000DM003, 7200 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 64MB cache, 3.5-Inch HDD