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Systemax Nighthawk Intel Pentium Extreme Based Nvidia SLI Gaming Computer

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 | Desktop Computers, Reviews

Of all the Systemax reviews I’ve done, this one is certainly the most expensive systemax computer I have seen. With a top of the line set of specifications, it will be enough for the most demanding of gamers, and the range of options will allow you to get just what you need.

As with many of the Systemax computers you get a range of options for a lot of the computer. In this case the base computer comes with an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition processor. This is a hefty processor, mostly because of it’s pricetag, which is over $1000 by itself. You do however get the fastest Intel processor available, albeit still a single-core processor.

Amongst the other parts in this Systemax computer you find appropriate choices for a high-speed computer.

It comes standard with 1GB of memory, which can be upgraded to 2GB, which I highly recommend. 2 BFG 7800GTX OC 256MB PCIe video cards are the standard fare in this system, but if you are really paying this much, dish out the extra $100 for 2 BFG 7900GTX OC 512MB video cards and reap the extra performance that those give.

Two Western Digital 74GB Raptor drives in a RAID 0 are an excellent choice in terms of performance. By themselves, these drives give the highest performance available in the desktop computer market. The RAID configuration pushes this even further and gives exceptionally fast performance. The RAID 0 does make it more vulnerable to drives failure, so the extra drive for storing your data is recommended to keep your data safe and provide a lot of extra capacity.

A DVD burner comes standard, but the second drive can just be a DVD-ROM, which I think is enough, or do without it altogether, unless you do a lot of disc to disc copying.

Rounding it out by adding a 19inch flat screen monitor brings the whole package to around $4000. Now, although I would personally choose all the parts of the computer seperately if I was spending this much money, the package here has been fairly well thought out and offers decent parts which are pretty much guaranteed to blow away anything else out there.

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