It’s fair to say that we were quite impressed by the Chillblast Fusion Juggernaut. A powerful 9800 GX2 graphics card, Core 2 Quad Q9450 processor and 24in Samsung screen certainly made an impression in the Labs – and it made everyone who saw it quite jealous. We all wanted one.

Except that I now have a feeling that the Juggernaut’s crown as top monster PC may be under threat. We’ve just taken delivery of the Mesh Ultimate XT9450 GTO and, well – to paraphrase the slogan of a particularly nasty meat snack – it’s a bit of an animal. As you can see, it’s housed inside a monolithic Cooler Master Cosmos, which is certainly a good start.

A quick peek at the specification reveals that there’s a few key areas where the Mesh may lose ground to the Juggernaut – or outpace it. The GPU, for instance, is a brand-new GeForce GTX 280 that we’ve reviewed today and been hugely impressed by, and there’s 4GB of 1033MHz DDR3 RAM. Both of these components are better, at least on paper, than their Juggernaut counterparts.

The processor is the same – the Q9450 – although the Juggernaut was overclocked, and the Mesh isn’t. The latest contendor, though, does include a Blu-ray drive; the Chillblast machine made do with a paltry DVD writer.

The Mesh also a 28in screen. Twenty-eight inches! Blimey.

Look out for a full review soon, and see if the Fusion Juggernaut’s title of A-listed Enthusiast PC is about to be unceremoniously stolen.