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As a first show for Skylake, Chillblast’s Fusion Master is an extremely powerful gaming PC. It offers superb performance and is capable of great frame rates in games. If you’re using a 1440p monitor, you’ll have absolutely no problem with any game you try at even the highest detail setting, as we found great frame rates from this resolution in all out tests.
The Samsung SM951 PCIe SSD is as fast as Samsung says it is, making even SATA SSDs look slow in comparison. It’s worth noting these results are in synthetic benchmarks only. In the real world, you won’t see such massive improvements to boot times or application load times as the results in Crystal Disk Mark suggest, but we still like the performance offered by this drive
With the GTX 980, 4K gaming is a bit of a mixed bag. The Chillblast Fusion Master is absolutely capable of playing games in 4K, but unfortunately not at the highest possible detail settings. For that, a GTX 980Ti would be a sensible upgrade to make, adding £150 to the price, or you could add a Superclocked+ EVGA GTX 980 Ti for an extra £350. Both of these are available in Chillblast’s customisation page.
This isn’t Chillblast’s fault though as it only goes to show how tough 4K gaming is. However, given the already-high cost of this system, an upgrade to the GTX 980Ti is a relatively small additional outlay for better 4K performance.
It’s worth mentioning Chillblast’s after-sales support. The five years warranty includes two years collect and return, so if you run into any problems, they’ll pick it up from you, repair it and return it free of charge. You’re covered for another three years after that where you’re responsible for returning the PC to them. The collect-and-return period can be extended by another year for an additional £99.
Looking at our benchmark results, the scores are a definite gain over current PC gaming technology, but the difference isn’t huge. If you bought a new high-end PC this year, Skylake doesn’t offer a huge improvement and it’s probably not worth upgrading.
But if your gaming PC is looking a bit long in the tooth, and you want to upgrade it to the fastest possible performance on the planet, there’s no reason not to go with Skylake, a high end Nvidia card and now an SSD that can reach 2GB/sec transfer speeds. Chillblast’s Fusion Master offers exactly that.
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Pros:
- Skylake offers the best per-core CPU performance we’ve ever seen.
- The Samsung SM951 offers some of the best storage performance we’ve recorded.
- Very well built, Windows 10 is supplied free from bloatware and Chillblast offers a good warranty period.
- Plenty of room to expand and upgrade the system.
Cons:
- It’s not clear there’s a huge leap over current gaming systems (especially on the processor/platform side).
- Even this mighty specification can’t quite manage over 30fps in all games at 4K resolution, without reducing the detail settings a bit.
KitGuru says: Chillblast’s Fusion Master is well-built, incredibly powerful and filled with next-generation technology. If you’re shopping for a pre-built, powerful gaming PC, this is currently one of the fastest machines money can buy.
You’d be silly to spend £1600 on this when you can build a more powerful system for £100-200 cheaper.
Most people pay to have stuff done for them, that’s the point; not everyone has the time to sit down and build. No one needs to know how a computer works or is put together to use it; it is no different than an automobile.
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Building a PC is relatively easy. It mostly involves plugging/connecting things together as instructed in the hardware manuals. It just looks, and sounds more complicated than it actually is, and goes a long way in teaching the builder how, and what can go wrong with a system. I’m completely self taught from a young age, and i’m now a full time IT engineer.
If you learn even the basic concepts of PC hardware, it goes a long way in helping you to help yourself when something goes wrong, AND ultimately saves you money. Akin to learning how to change a flat tire, or a faulty headlamp bulb on an automobile. If you don’t learn the basics, you’re going to be paying a lot of money for an otherwise relatively simple task.
It’s not that “no one needs to know” its just that some people are too lazy to learn.
What warranty does your self-build come with?
I’m too too busy/lazy to learn how to subsist entirely on food I grow and rear myself. Instead I “overpay” by shopping at Waitrose. Feel free to judge me on that too.
It comes with the hardware manufacturers warranty. The same one you’ll get from resellers, unless you foolishly pay for an additional guarantee package, like on site, or return to Base. Yes, I will gladly judge you since you shop in Waitrose.
exactly. The build has zero warranty and you have no one to turn to if your system develops a fault.
what is it about waitrose that you are most strongly against? the high standards of animal and environmental stewardship they demand from suppliers, or the fair price they pay to them?
You are speaking of a system as a whole with a baseline warranty, such as a system that is pre-built. Of which, an additional guarantee package can be provided, at cost, by re-sellers. You know the type of insurance package that Curry’s, or one of the main electronic retailers will try to sell you at the checkout? It is not usually required since the manufacturers warranties exist. The only bonus from something like this is say for the likes of a Fridge-Freezer or Washing machine…..if it breaks down, they will offer a pick-up and replace scenario. Now that is useful. As I have experienced when my washing machine decided to flood the kitchen. I made sure I knew what went wrong, so that maybe I could repair it myself if there is a next time, and not have to get the extended warranty again.
Each component in a Personal Computer however, is (or at least should be) chosen by preference and thus also carries an individual standard manufacturers warranty for each component you decide to purchase. Pre-built or not.
In case you weren’t aware, with PC hardware, different manufacturers offer different lengths of warranty. For example; a graphics card from ASUS might have a 3 Year Warranty, where as other manufacturers will carry a 5 year, or even a lifetime warranty. Most RAM modules carry lifetime warranties. They all differ. This actually means that you really don’t have to purchase in an additional warranty package for a full pre-built system (a majority of these don’t come as standard anyway, and require additional cost after buying the system and paying for the building of the system)
If something fails within a PC, you only have RMA the failed component, (as long as it is still in warranty) and get it replaced. The trepidation for most people comes in how to go about figuring out what has failed. This goes back to what I was saying. Learning some of the basics ~ especially when you are investing a lot of money in hardware, and knowing what you are getting yourself into, goes a long way to saving money, and who doesn’t like to save some money? Hence why I wouldn’t shop at Waitrose either; but hey, it’s just my opinion…each to their own. I personally think all supermarket chains are as bad as each other.
When I was young, I bought pre-built systems, learnt about them when they broke down, and replaced the parts myself. Now I just build my own outright, and they don’t break down as much either.
Unless you are a computer expert or know one, how do you tell which is the failed component? You can’t and have no one to turn to, hence the warranty which all reputable system builders provide as standard, no matter how many times you try to lie claiming otherwise.
Suggesting we all train ourselves as white goods repair people is identical to your PC argument, and is therefore defeated by the same counterarguments I have provided. Cost is not the only consideration.
I’m not going to continue a discussion with somebody who says that I lose, am lying, or any other immature attack. That’s just trolling. I won’t reiterate on things that you choose not to pick up on either. If you read back on this discussion… I wasn’t arguing. I simply have my opinions and have shared them here. Take it or leave it.
It is sincere, valid argument which is not what trolling is. I have picked up everything and refuted it, including your “lie” about reputable system builders’ inclusive system warranty, thus you “losing”.
Good luck with your pre-built system if you decide to get one…. You’ll need it.
that is hypocritical and makes no sense. It will have an inclusive warranty and will require zero special skill on my part to maintain, thus taking “luck” out of the equation. However, over time living with it I have the option and opportunity to learn about maintaining it, like you did, should it interest me, because I am tech savvy and highly intelligent.