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Chillblast Fusion Katana review

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Benchmark-beating power, great peripherals and a tempting price make for a lightning-quick gaming machine

Review Date: 2 Jul 2009

Reviewed By: Mike Jennings

Price when reviewed: £1,477 (£1,699 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Features & Design
5 stars out of 6

Value for Money
5 stars out of 6

Performance
6 stars out of 6

Warranty
Warranty	2yr collect and return

Memory
Memory type	DDR3

Hard disk
Hard disk	Samsung Spinpoint F1
Capacity	1.00TB
Internal disk interface	SATA/300
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
Graphics card	ATI Radeon HD 4890
Multiple SLI/CrossFire cards?
3D performance setting	High
Graphics chipset	ATi Radeon HD 4890
Graphics card RAM	1MB
Number of graphics cards	2

Monitor
Monitor make and model	Samsung SyncMaster 2433
Resolution screen horizontal	1,920
Resolution screen vertical	1,200
Resolution	1920 x 1200
Pixel response time	5ms
Contrast ratio	1,000:1
Screen brightness	300cd/m2
DVI inputs	1
HDMI inputs	0
VGA inputs	1
DisplayPort inputs	0

Additional Peripherals
Speaker type	N/A
Sound card	Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme

Power supply
Power supply	Cooler Master M850
Power supply rating	850W

Mouse & Keyboard
Mouse and keyboard	Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard / Razer diamondback 3G Gaming Mouse

Operating system and software
OS family	Windows Vista

Noise and power
Idle power consumption	252W
Peak power consumption	513W

Performance tests
Overall application benchmark score	2.55
Office application benchmark score	2.47
2D graphics application benchmark score	2.71
Encoding application benchmark score	2.07
Multitasking application benchmark score	2.95
3D performance (crysis) low settings	71fps
3D performance setting	High