Gaming PC’s

Gladiator Nemes!s AMD FX 8150 @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Gaming PC (£1099.99)

Specs
• CPU professionally Overclocked up to 4.50GHz*
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit SP1 Operating System
• AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 Socket AM3+ 8-Core Processor
• Thermolab Trinity Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler
• ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
• 8GB Mushkin Blackline #996995 (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
• 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX 3.5" SATA III Hard Drive
• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 PCI-Express ATX Motherboard
• Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
• 750W Corsair TX750 V2 ATX2.3 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply
• Coolermaster Storm Enforcer Gaming Midi Chassis
• LG 22x DVD-RW SATA Black Optical ReWriter Drive

Gladiator FTW H20 V2 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Gaming PC (£1049.99)

Specs

• CPU professionally Overclocked up to 4.50GHz*
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit SP1 Operating System
• Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
• Corsair H80 Water-Cooling CPU Cooler
• GeForce GTX 560Ti 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
• 8GB Mushkin Blackline #996995 (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
• 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX 3.5" SATA III Hard Drive
• ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 Intel Z68 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard
• Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
• 650W Corsair TX650 V2 ATX2.3 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply
• Corsair Carbide 500R Black Midi Tower Chassis
• LG 22x DVD-RW SATA Black Optical ReWriter Drive

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This PC uses more power hungry hardware such as ATI Graphics cards and the Bulldozer processer requires more. Also, the Bulldozer CPU’s run hot therefore require better cooling than comes with this system, such as a custom water loop, or a Noctua NH-D14, more so when over clocked. This means that this PC has the 750w power supply whereas the other has the 650w. In terms of HD 1080p on a singular monitor, the cards will be evenly matched, but when put on multiple monitors; the HD6950 will have the edge due to extra memory. Newer games such as the recently released Battlefield 3 will take advantage of this extra memory and will be able to run higher quality textures.

The FTW system has H80 cooler, which is stated as ‘water-cooling’, but is widely considered air cooling as the temperature it provides is inferior to even some fan systems. So when it says H2O in the title, this can be misleading. This computer is running a cooler CPU (SandyBridge), so does not need as heavy duty cooling.

Both systems overclock effectively and have both already been overclocked to 4.50GHz. Overclocking is the process of raising the clock speeds of computer hardware to achieve a faster machine. This process is most commonly done on CPU’s and GPU’s.