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A beautifully designed and commandingly powerful system that almost no one will be able to justify buying.

Review Date: 20 Mar 2009

Reviewed By: Dave Stevenson

Price when reviewed: £1,651 (£1,899 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Features & Design
6 stars out of 6

Value for Money
3 stars out of 6

Performance
5 stars out of 6

Warranty
Warranty	1 yr return to base

Motherboard
Conventional PCI slots free	0
Conventional PCI slots total	0
PCI-E x16 slots free	1
PCI-E x16 slots total	2
PCI-E x8 slots free	0
PCI-E x8 slots total	0
PCI-E x4 slots free	2
PCI-E x4 slots total	2
PCI-E x1 slots free	0
PCI-E x1 slots total	0
Wired adapter speed	1,000Mbits/sec

Memory
Memory type	DDR3

Hard disk
Capacity	750GB
Internal disk interface	SATA
Spindle speed	7,200RPM
Cache size	16MB
Hard disk 2 make and model	N/A
Hard disk 2 nominal capacity	N/A
Hard disk 2 formatted capacity	N/A
Hard disk 2 spindle speed	N/A
Hard disk 2 cache size	N/A
Hard disk 3 make and model	N/A
Hard disk 3 nominal capacity	N/A
Hard disk 4 make and model	N/A
Hard disk 4 nominal capacity	N/A

Graphics card
Multiple SLI/CrossFire cards?
3D performance setting	Low
Graphics chipset	Nvidia GeForce GT 120
Graphics card RAM	512MB
DVI-I outputs	1
HDMI outputs	0
VGA (D-SUB) outputs	0
DisplayPort outputs	1
Number of graphics cards	N/A

Monitor
Monitor make and model	N/A
Resolution screen horizontal	N/A
Resolution screen vertical	N/A
Resolution	N/A x N/A
Pixel response time	N/A
Contrast ratio	N/A
Screen brightness	N/A
DVI inputs	N/A
HDMI inputs	N/A
VGA inputs	N/A
DisplayPort inputs	N/A

Rear ports
USB ports (downstream)	5
FireWire ports	4
PS/2 mouse port
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports	0
Optical S/PDIF audio output ports	2
Modem
3.5mm audio jacks	3

Case
Case format	Full tower
Dimensions	206 x 475 x 511mm (WDH)

Free drive bays
Free front panel 5.25in bays	1

Front ports
Front panel USB ports	2
Front panel FireWire ports	2
Front panel memory card reader

Mouse & Keyboard
Mouse and keyboard	Apple wired keyboard and mouse

Operating system and software
OS family	Mac OS X

Performance tests
Overall application benchmark score	1.88
Office application benchmark score	1.67
2D graphics application benchmark score	2.05
Encoding application benchmark score	1.63
Multitasking application benchmark score	2.18
3D performance (crysis) low settings	84fps
3D performance setting	Low