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Our review system arrived in a ARIAnet Triton chassis box, with the Gigabyte motherboard box adhered to the outside. We would hope Aria might ship these a little better to the customer as the motherboard box looked a little worse for wear during transit and all the important driver discs and accessories are inside.
The ARIA Gladiator 6300-HD7870LE is not the most eyecatching looking system, but for less than £500 we wouldn't think you would get much better.
The optical drive is mounted at the top of the case and in the middle of the front panel are the USB and headphone/microphone connectors. At the side is a power button. The case is quite light as the materials are obviously thinner due to the budget price point.
The case has a blue exhaust fan installed at the rear and there are watercooling holes above. The Gigabyte motherboard has 6x USB ports (4xUSB2.0 and 2xUSB3.0), alongside DVI, VGA and HDMI connectors. The HD7870 LE is installed in the top slots and the Corsair power supply is installed at the bottom.
No internal packaging to remove before use. The case may be budget oriented, but it is painted black inside and the ARIA build is clean and the cables are well routed. There are some peripheral cables visible in the bottom tray below the 2.5 inch hard drive.
No fancy cooler on the processor, just a reference AMD heatsink. There is a blue exhaust fan at the rear of the case, which expels hot air.
The budget oriented Corsair CX500 power supply is used in this build, not the newer modular version.
The VTX3D HD7870 LE Tahiti card.
Sadly, not a Solid State Drive, but a 5,400rpm 2.5 inch mechanical drive. We know already that this is going to negatively impact overall system responsiveness.
There are not that many hardwired cables with the CX500 power supply, so they are easy enough to route along the length of the chassis.
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How much extra would it have cost to include a 64GB SSD? including a 2.5 inch 5,400 rpm laptop drive seems weird.
getting a system out at £500 quid with everything ‘cool’ in it, is difficult. I think this is quite good. Maybe dropping the LE to a HD7850 and putting in an SSD would have worked out the same price, but overall a better all round performance?
@ Davis. I dont agree. its easy to upgrade with an SSD later, for say £60, and you dont have to bin the 500gb mechniacal drive in the system. the hD7850 is much weaker than a HD7870 Tahiti LE and you would have to bin the HD7850 for an upgrade later.
But if you had an SSD in the system then you could save that £60, and get another HD7850 for crossfire, they are cheap right now, that would buy half of one. and you would be faster than a single HD7870.
The CX500 can’t handle 4 PCI E connectors, it only has 2, so Crsossfire is out of the question, unless its low end hardware.
Have just received one of these systems for my son. Nicely put together. The 7870 Tahiti LE was by far the better choice as they have used a micro ATX mobo that does no support Crossfire. Installing an SSD later will be the way we go.
Also to let folk know, the system comes in the case box with the mobo box taped to the top with all the driver CD’s etc. That then comes in a bigger box with more than enough protection for a sate journey. Our one arrived with the mobo box looking like new. Looking forward to giving it a run later.