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Yoyotech Water Dragon 3.6 in Desktop PCs

Verdict

AMD's new CPU and GPUs combine with great effect, returning superb benchmark results

Review Date: 1 Apr 2009

Price when reviewed: £756 (£869 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

Features & Design
5 stars out of 6

Value for Money
5 stars out of 6

Performance
6 stars out of 6

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Part Code Water Dragon 3.6
Review Date 1 Apr 2009
Price ex VAT £756
Price inc VAT £869
Overall rating 5 stars out of 6
Performance 6 stars out of 6
Features & Design 5 stars out of 6
Value for Money 5 stars out of 6
Warranty
Warranty final 1 yr return to base
Basic specifications
Total hard disk capacity 750
RAM capacity 4.00GB
Screen size N/A
Processor
CPU family AMD
CPU nominal frequency 2.80GHz
CPU overclocked frequency 3.60GHz
Processor socket Socket AM2+
HSF (heatsink-fan) CoolIT Domino ALC water-cooling
Motherboard
Conventional PCI slots free 2
Conventional PCI slots total 2
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 0
PCI-E x4 slots total 0
PCI-E x1 slots free 2
PCI-E x1 slots total 2
Wired adapter speed 1,000Mbits/sec
Memory
Memory type DDR3
Memory sockets total 4
Hard disk
Capacity 750GB
Drives
Optical disc technology Blu-ray reader
Monitor
Monitor make and model N/A
Resolution screen horizontal N/A
Resolution screen vertical N/A
Resolution N/A x N/A
Rear ports
USB ports (downstream) 10
FireWire ports 1
eSATA ports 1
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports 1
Modem no
Graphics card
Multiple SLI/CrossFire cards? no
3D performance setting Low
Graphics chipset ATI Radeon HD 4890
Number of graphics cards N/A
Additional Peripherals
Speakers N/A
Speaker type N/A
Sound card N/A
Peripherals None
Case
Chassis Cooler Master 960
Case format Full tower
Dimensions 213 x 525 x 482mm (WDH)
Front ports
Front panel memory card reader no
Mouse & Keyboard
Mouse and keyboard N/A
Operating system and software
OS family Windows Vista
Noise and power
Idle power consumption 164W
Peak power consumption 358W
Performance tests
Overall application benchmark score 2.08
Office application benchmark score 1.62
2D graphics application benchmark score 2.39
Encoding application benchmark score 1.75
Multitasking application benchmark score 2.58
3D performance (crysis) low settings 113fps
3D performance setting Low
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