Home / Tech News / Featured Announcement / ARIA Gladiator Punisher 7950 i5-3570K 4.40GHz LAN OC PC Review

ARIA Gladiator Punisher 7950 i5-3570K 4.40GHz LAN OC PC Review


ACC_1630_DxO
Our review system shipped inside a large box with the Prodigy chassis box inside.
ACC_1650_DxOACC_1651_DxO
ARIA include the motherboard box with all the accessories and left over components from the build phase. There is also a drive dock bay supplied which they removed from the Prodigy.
ACC_1631_DxO
The Bitfenix Prodigy is a gorgeous case, predominately white, with black accenting. A very high contrast chassis design which looks very clean. You can read our indepth review of this chassis, over here.
ACC_1633_DxOACC_1634_DxO
ARIA have installed a DVD rewriter at the top of the case. Not a BluRay player, sadly.
ACC_1635_DxO
The Prodigy has little handles at the front and back, this makes it very easy to carry around.
ACC_1636_DxO
Along the side of the Prodigy is a power button, reset switch, headphone and microphone jack and two USB 3.0 ports.
ACC_1637_DxO
The rear of the case is home to the CPU cooling fan (Corsair liquid cooler in this build). The ASUS Mini ITX motherboard is fully loaded and even has video output if you don't use a discrete graphics card.
ACC_1642_DxO
When the side door is removed, we can see the HD7950 graphics card, in this build an XFX dual fan model. All of the cabling is well hidden on this side, quite difficult to achieve with a physically small chassis such as this. Underneath we can see the Corsair CX600M power supply. We reviewed this over here, if you want further information.
ACC_1643_DxOACC_1645_DxO
ACC_1646_DxOACC_1647_DxO
ACC_1648_DxO
We removed the other side panel which has cables connected directly to the motherboard. We can get a better look at the Corsair liquid cooler from this side. Many of the cables are routed underneath the motherboard section, hidden out of view from the other side.

Become a Patron!

Check Also

KitGuru Games: A decade of GOTY winners – did voters get it WRONG?

The Game Awards have been around for well over a decade and at this point, the TGAs have cemented themselves as the biggest awards show for the industry. Keighley knows how to draw people in with promises of new game trailers and other announcements, leading to huge moments like Bethesda's reveal for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, or Microsoft's Xbox Series X reveal. Winning the show's GOTY award is considered to be a badge of honour, so let's take a look back at the last ten GOTY winners and whether or not they deserved it. 

2 comments

  1. I love that case, but im not generally a fan of mini itx motherboards as they are generally compromises.

  2. Great system, a little expensive for me. but I can see why that would sell well. not so sure on those cheap corsair power supplies however, they are meant to be bad.