Falcon Computers Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming BattleRig Review

Today we target the readers who want a new low cost system to handle basic duties, such as high definition media playback, casual gaming and office work. The new 'Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming Battlerig' from UK system builder Falcon Computers looks set to fit the bill. This system features the latest AMD A10 7850K APU, built inside the diminutive, award winning Aerocool Dead Silence chassis. Falcon computers are currently selling three different specified Kaveri systems which you can see over here. We received the most expensive KV3 version, which is priced at £599.99 inc vat. Falcon Computer have a £50 price cut running as we go to publication, so you can pick it up for £549.99 inc vat. Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming BattleRig Specification: Case: Aerocool Dead Silence Cube Black/White Processor: AMD 7850K Quad 3.7Ghz R7 GFX Cooler: STD CPU Cooler (Supplied) Mainboard: ASUS A88XMPLUS FM2+ Chipset Memory: 8GB ADATA XPG 2133Mhz Video: AMD Radeon HD R7 APU 3D GFX HDD: 1TB Seagate 7200RPM - 64Mb PSU: 500w Cooler Master B500 Power Supply Optical: 24X Samsung DVD-RW Drive OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 64Bit Warranty: 2 YEAR BattleRig Extended Warranty! Falcon Computers ship their system inside the Dead Silence box with some bubblewrap and black bin bag material to protect it during shipping. They might be wiser moving to a 'double box' system like their competitors, however there was thankfully no damage caused. I was surprised to see no discs or spare cables supplied in the box either, although I am not sure if this is because we received a 'review sample'. We all know how good the Aerocool Dead Silence Gaming Cube is - we have reviewed it in depth before. This is actually the first time I have had a 'hands on' with one myself and I am very impressed with the build quality and styling. It is a beautiful little chassis and it surely ranks up there with the Bitfenix Prodigy. No Falcon Computer branding on the front of the Dead Silence chassis, just an Aerocool logo alongside an AMD A Series Black Edition sticker. There are four USB ports at the top of the case - two USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports. Along the left are power, reset buttons and a microphone and headphone jack. The Aerocool Dead Silence Gaming Cube doors are easily removed with thumbscrews. Inside we see the ASUS A88XMPLUS FM2+ motherboard, ADATA 2,133mhz memory, 1TB SEAGATE hard drive and Cooler Master power supply. Sadly there is no SSD in this build, but it would increase the retail price. There is no discrete graphics card in this build, although you could add one later if you wanted. This system uses the GPU aspect of the AMD A10 7850K APU. System validation is available here. The build quality is excellent, with most of the cables routed out of the way, not an easy task considering the windowed panel. Flipping the case around, we can see the other side of the build. Most of the power cables are hidden out of sight underneath the tray which is home to the motherboard. On this page we present some super high resolution images of the product taken with the 24.5MP Nikon D3X camera and 24-70mm ED lens. These will take much longer to open due to the dimensions, especially on slower connections. If you use these pictures on another site or publication, please credit Kitguru.net as the owner/source. As mentioned earlier in the review, this system is based around the new AMD A10 7850K APU. This processor has 4 Streamroller X86 computing cores with support for the latest ISA instructions, including FMA4/3, AVX, AES, XOP. There is up to 2MB L2 cache per dual core module. This Falcon Computers system does not ship with a discrete graphics card, the A10 7805K itself has the graphics embedded. We are using the latest Catalyst 14.1 beta driver for this review today. An overview of the system. We can see that the A10 7850K is clocked at 4GHZ. The R7 graphics is clocked at 720mhz, with 8 ROPs, 32 TMU's and 512 shaders. The 1GB of 1,066mhz DDR3 memory is connected via a 128 bit interface. Comparison Systems (for specific synthetic test compares): Mesh Elite Mini Gamer Plus: Power Supply: 750W Cooler Master GX RS-750, 85% Eff’, 80 PLUS Bronze, SLI/CrossFire. Motherboard: MSI Z87I WIFI – Mini-ITX Motherboard Socket 1150. Processor: i7-4770K Quad Core Processor (3.5GHz, 8MB Cache) @ 4.2ghz. Memory: 16GB DDR3 1866MHz Memory (2x8GB) Kit. Graphics: 4GB AMD Radeon™ R9 290 – 4GD5 Gaming Series Graphics. SSD: 240GB SSD – Solid State Drive. HDD: 2TB SATA III 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8ms Hard Drive. PCSpecialist Vanquish 230X: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.2GHz Memory: 16GB Kingston HyperX BEAST @ 2400MHz Motherboard: ASUS Z87-A Motherboard SSD: 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD HDD: 1TB SATA III 6Gb/s HDD Graphics: 3GB AMD Radeon 280X Graphics Cooler: CoolerMaster Seidon 120M Liquid Cooler Power Supply: Corsair TX650M Modular PSU Intel E5 2687W x 2 Motherboard: Asus Z9 PE-D8 WS Coolers: Corsair H80 x2 Memory: 64GB Kingston Predator 1,600mhz 9-9-9-24 1T Graphics Card: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition (1,200mhz core 1,600mhz memory). Power Supply: Seasonic 1000W Platinum Modular Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive Chassis: Lian Li X2000FN Monitors: Dell U3011, 3x Ilyama ProLite E2472HDD Boot Drive: Corsair 240GB Neutron GTX SSD Secondary Drive: Corsair 240GB Neutron SSD Intel E5 2660 Motherboard: Gigabyte X79S-UP5-WIFI Cooler: Corsair H100 Memory: 16GB G.Skill ARES 2,133mhz @ 9-11-10-28 Graphics Card: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition (1,200mhz core 1,600mhz memory). Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive Chassis: Lian Li X2000a Boot Drive: Intel 510 120GB Secondary Drive: Patriot 240GB WildFire Intel i7 3960X EE Motherboard: Asus P9X79 WS WorkStation Cooler: Corsair H100 Memory: 8GB Corsair Dominator GT8 2400mhz memory Graphics Card: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition (1,200mhz core 1,600mhz memory). Power Supply: ADATA 1200W Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive Chassis: Cooler Master Cosmos 2 Boot Drive: Crucial C300 128GB SSD Secondary Drive: Patriot 240GB Pyro SE Intel i7 3820 Motherboard: ASRock Extreme4-M Cooler: Intel reference cooler Memory: 8GB Corsair GTX8 @ 2133mhz Power Supply: ADATA 1200W Chassis: Lian Li PC60 Boot Drive: Crucial C300 Secondary Drive: Patriot Pyro SE 240GB Intel i5 3570K @ 4.2 – OCUK Prodigy Arctic Gaming System Motherboard: ASRock Z77E-ITX Intel Z77 Cooler: Coolit Liquid Memory: Corsair Vengeance White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit Power Supply: OCZ ZS 750W PSU Chassis: Bitfenix Prodigy Mini ITX Case – White Boot Drive: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Secondary Drive: 1TB HDD AMD FX 8150 Black Edition Processor: AMD FX 8150 Black Edition Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 Cooler: Noctua NH D14 Memory: G-SKill Ripjaws 1600mhz 8GB (2x 4GB) Power Supply: ADATA 1200W Chassis: SilverStone Raven 3 Boot Drive: Intel 40GB SSD Secondary Drive: Patriot 120GB WildFire Intel Core i7 990X Processor: Intel Core i7 990x Cooler: Corsair H100 Motherboard: Gigabyte G1 Assassin Memory: Kingston HyperX 6GB Drives: Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 Chassis: Antec Twelve Hundred Core i7 970 @ 4.6ghz Graphics: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition (1,200mhz core 1,600mhz memory). Cooling: Coolit Vantage Motherboard: MSI X58A-GD65 Chassis: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 Memory: 6GB ADATA @ 2133mhz 9-10-9-32 Storage: Kingston SSDNow V+ 512GB Gen 2 SSD (Storage) / Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB (OS boot) Intel Core i7 2700k Processor: Intel Core i7 2700k Cooling: ThermalTake Frio OCK Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 Motherboard Chassis: Silverstone Raven 3. Power Supply: Corsair 850W. Memory: Corsair 1600mhz memory Storage: Intel 80GB SSD (boot) / Patriot Wildfire 120GB SSD. Intel Core i7 2600k Processor: Intel Core i7 2600k Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen 3 Cooler: Intel XTS-100H Memory: ADATA 1600mhz DDR3 8GB (2x4GB) Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 850W Boot Drive: Intel 510 SSD 250GB Intel Core i5 2500k Processor: Intel Core i7 2500k Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 Motherboard Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 CPU Cooler Memory: Corsair 1600mhz memory 8GB (2x4GB) Power Supply: Corsair 850W. Boot Drive: Patriot Pyro 120GB SSD. AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 Cooler: Noctua NH D14 Memory: G-SKill Ripjaws 1600mhz 8GB (2x 4GB) Power Supply: ADATA 1200W Chassis: SilverStone Raven 3 Boot Drive: Intel 40GB SSD Secondary Drive: Patriot 120GB WildFire. Software: 3DMark Vantage 3DMark 11 3DMark PCMark 8 Cinebench R11.5 64 bit Cinebench R15 FRAPS Professional Unigine Heaven Benchmark CrystalDiskMark Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 11 Cyberlink MediaEspresso Atto Disk Benchmark CrystalDiskMark SiSoft Sandra Games: Tomb Raider (Direct X 11) Total War: Rome 2 (Direct X 11) GRID 2 (Direct X 11) Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment: Asus USB BluRay Drive Thermal Diodes Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter Nikon D3X with R1C1 Kit (4 flashes), Nikon 24-70MM lens. Game descriptions are edited with courtesy from Wikipedia. PCMark 8 is the latest version in our series of popular PC benchmarking tools. It is designed to test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. PCMark 8 is the complete PC benchmark for home and business. The overall score of 3,277 shows decent overall performance, however without a Solid State Drive some of the benchmark results are lower than we would like to see. Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7. This is the first edition where the feature-restricted, free of charge version could not be used any number of times. 1280×1024 resolution was used with performance settings. This test result shows that the Kaveri A10 7850K is surprisingly capable for an all in one solution, and the score indicates that it should handle most of the older Direct X 10 titles at 1080p (without AA anyway). 3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads. Scores are in line with what we would expect from this system, although the physics scores are surprisingly good for such a low power, low cost processor. 3DMark is an essential tool used by millions of gamers, hundreds of hardware review sites and many of the world’s leading manufacturers to measure PC gaming performance. Futuremark say “Use it to test your PC’s limits and measure the impact of overclocking and tweaking your system. Search our massive results database and see how your PC compares or just admire the graphics and wonder why all PC games don’t look this good. To get more out of your PC, put 3DMark in your PC.” An incredibly demanding suite of tests for the A10 7850K, although it scores well and is an early rough indicator that it should be able to handle some of the new Direct X 11 titles at 720p with modest image quality settings. SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Native ports for all major operating systems are available: Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86) Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64) Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64) Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01) Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02) All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of: SMP – Multi-Processor MC – Multi-Core SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86 IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit Performance is a little higher than previous APU's from AMD. Memory performance is also strong with the ADATA 2,133mhz memory installed. CINEBENCH R11.5 64 Bit is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free. Not the ideal machine for any serious rendering duties, falling in behind the Core i5 4430, but slightly ahead of the last generation 6790K. CINEBENCH 15 is a cross-platform testing suite that measures hardware performance and is the de facto standard benchmarking tool for leading companies and trade journals for conducting real-world hardware performance tests. With the new Release 15, systems with up to 256 threads can be tested. CINEBENCH is available for both Windows and OS X and is used by almost all hardware manufacturers and trade journals for comparing CPUs and graphics cards. The 4ghz A10 7850K scores 316 points, putting it just behind the last generation 6790K. CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 is the successor to CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5. With its further optimized CPU/GPU-acceleration, MediaEspresso is an even faster way to convert not only your video but also your music and image files between a wide range of popular formats. Now you can easily playback and display your favourite movies, songs and photos not just on your mobile phone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, or Youtube and Facebook channels but also on the newly launched iPhone 4. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs on any of your computing devices and enhance your videos with CyberLink’s built-in TrueTheater Technology. New and Improved Features Ultra Fast Media Conversion – With support from the Intel Core i-Series processor family, ATI Stream & NVIDIA CUDA, MediaEspresso’s Batch-Conversion function enables multiple files to be transcoded simultaneously. Smart Detect Technology – MediaEspresso 6 automatically detects the type of portable device connected to the PC and selects the best multimedia profile to begin the conversion without the need for user’s intervention. Direct Sync to Portable Devices – Video, audio and image files can be transferred in a few easy steps to mobile phones including those from Acer, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Palm, as well as Sony Walkman and PSP devices. Enhanced Video Quality – CyberLink TrueTheater Denoise and Lighting enables the enhancement of video quality through optical noise filters and automatic brightness adjustment. Video, Music and Image File Conversion – Convert not only videos to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, H.264/AVC, and FLV at the click of a button, but also images such as JPEG and PNG and music files like WMA, MP3 and M4A. Online Sharing – Conversion to video formats used by popular social networking websites and a direct upload feature means posting videos to Facebook and YouTube has never been easier. For our testing today we are converting a 4.4GB 720p MKV file (1h:58mins) to Apple Mp4 format for playback on a portable device. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power. Hardware acceleration is enabled. The Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming Battlerig completes the test in 13 minutes and 48 seconds. The fastest Core i7 systems will complete this same test in around 7 minutes. The slowest Intel Atom systems will take around 1 hour and 15 minutes. Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64. Performance of the mechanical hard drive is about as good as we could expect, scoring around 195 MB/s and 177 MB/s in the sequential read and write test, respectively. The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage. The impressive scores are mirrored in ATTO, hitting over 200 MB/s peak rates. In real world terms however, we knew immediately that this system wasn't using a Solid State Drive. If you are lucky to already own a new Solid State Drive you will know what I mean - overall system performance can be sluggish without one, even with a cutting edge Core i7 processor. The Falcon Kaveri system takes around 35 seconds to boot up and become responsive and some programs can take a while to load. We do appreciate that adding a Solid State Drive to this build would have increased the retail price for Falcon, but if I owned this system myself I really would feel the need to add one, improving boot times and overall system responsiveness. To test the USB 3.0 capabilities of the Asus Z87-A motherboard, we use one of the fastest drives we have – the Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB. We reviewed this way back in February last year. Performance from the USB 3.0 ports is impressive, almost hitting 300 MB/s in the sequential read test. Peaks around 270 MB/s in the read test, close to the performance in CrystalDiskMark. Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise. Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary. We tested both at 720p and 1080p settings. At 1280x720 we selected the 'high' quality preset. At these image quality settings the frame rates dropped too much at 1920x1080, so we selected the 'normal' preset. The AMD Kaveri A10 7850k is perfectly capable powering this engine at 720p with the modest 'high' quality preset, dropping below 30 frames per second only once in our test environment. At 1920x1080 however the frame rate suffers, dropping below the sweet spot of 25 a couple of times. Grid 2 is the sequel to the racing video game Race Driver: Grid. It was developed and published by Codemasters. The game includes numerous real world locations such as Paris, numerous United States locations, and many more, and also includes motor vehicles spanning four decades. In addition, it includes a new handling system that developer Codemasters has dubbed ‘TrueFeel’, which aims to hit a sweet spot between realism and accessibility. We tested the GRID 2 engine at both 720p and 1080p. At both resolutions we selected the HIGH preset. At 1280x720 we enabled 2AA, but disabled anti aliasing completely at 1920x1080. Excellent results - showing that GRID 2 was playable at both resolutions. The game is smooth throughout. Total War ROME 2 is the eighth stand alone game in the Total War series, it is the successor to the successful Rome: Total War title. The Warscape Engine powers the visuals of the game and the new unit cameras will allow players to focus on individual soldiers on the battlefield, which in itself may contain thousands of combatants at a time. Creative Assembly has stated that they wish to bring out the more human side of war this way, with soldiers reacting with horror as their comrades get killed around them and officers inspiring their men with heroic speeches before siege towers hit the walls of the enemy city. This will be realised using facial animations for individual units, adding a feel of horror and realism to the battles. We selected 1280x720 resolution with the 'high' and 'very high' preset, shown above. The Very High setting proves too much for the modest hardware, dropping the frame rate below 25 frequently. The 'High' setting works out much better, maintaining a 30+ frame rate at all times - although you lose general graphic detail in the environments and units. The tests were performed in a controlled air conditioned room with temperatures maintained at a constant 23c – a comfortable environment for the majority of people reading this.Idle temperatures were measured after sitting at the desktop for 30 minutes. Load measurements were acquired by playing Tomb Raider 2014 for 60 minutes and measuring the peak temperature. The system is relatively cool running at all times, even under extended load. Ambient noise in the room is around 20-25dBa. We measure from a distance of around 1 meter from the closed chassis and 4 foot from the ground to mirror a real world situation. Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on only the video card. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635. KitGuru noise guide 10dBA - Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves 20-25dBA – Whisper 30dBA - High Quality Computer fan 40dBA - A Bubbling Brook, or a Refridgerator 50dBA - Normal Conversation 60dBA - Laughter 70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer 80dBA - City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal 90dBA - Motorcycle or Lawnmower 100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output 110dBA - Orchestra 120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine 130dBA – Threshold of Pain 140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range) 160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum This is an incredibly quiet system, barely measuring on our meter at all. At idle it is basically 'silent', and when the CPU fan spins up, it peaks just under 33 dBa. This makes it ideal for a living room or bedroom environment. We measure the system power consumption at the wall - not factoring in the monitor. We test when idle - then when loading with Cinebench R15 and Tomb Raider 2014. At idle, the whole system only consumes 40 watts of power. When all cores are loaded 100% in Cinebench this rises to 108 watts. When playing the 2014 iteration of Tomb Raider, the power consumption fluctuates between 85 watts and 113 watts. We took the average over the course of 5 minutes - which was 97 watts. Many people might expect this to be higher than the Cinebench reading, but the four cores are running at 100% load when Tomb Raider is running. Falcon Computers have created a full range of AMD A10 7850K powered systems, and the Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming Battlerig we received for review slots in at the top of this specific range. It will appeal to the casual gamer who wants a low cost, quiet system for placement in a living room or bedroom. There is no doubt that the new Kaveri A10 7850K is an excellent processor and in gaming terms a marked improvement on AMD's last generation models. The A10 7850K integrated graphics delivers surprisingly capable frame rates, able to power current Direct X 11 titles with reasonable image quality settings at 720p. You will even get away with DX11 1080p, if you are happy lowering IQ and running without anti aliasing. The goal of Falcon computers was clearly to build a quiet, petite little system that would be capable of handling office and media duties and high definition gaming via a television set. Without a discrete graphics card, it demands minimal power at the socket, runs cooler while generating less noise. In this regard Falcon can consider The Kaveri Dead Silence Battlerig a complete success. I have to admit I have been surprised that AMD are charging so much for the A10 7850K. It retails at £139.99 inc vat in the UK today. The Intel Core i5 4670k is only £30 more expensive and delivers greater raw CPU performance. For a gamer working with a slightly greater budget, a 4670K and entry level discrete card would be a better option. The Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming BattleRig is undoubtedly an excellent purchase. We love the Aerocool Dead Silence Cube case - it is almost silent, and looks fantastic. If we were building this system ourselves we would spend a little extra, and add the Asus R9 270 Direct CU II, which is a £155 extra on the Falcon Computers configuration tool. This is a very quiet running card, and it would massively increase the gaming frame rate prowess at 1920x1080 - ideal for pairing up with a high definition 1080p television set. The biggest weakness of the review system we received today, was the lack of solid state drive. It was immediately noticeable and one area that many people overlook. Thankfully Falcon Computers have the option to add one. If you are working to a tight budget, then we would recommend the addition of a Seagate Hybrid 1TB/8GB SSD. This only adds £50 to the price and would dramatically improve overall system performance. A no brainer in our opinion. If you want to configure this system for yourself - then head over to this link. Discuss on our Facebook page, over HERE. Pros: Aerocool Dead Silence case is beautiful AMD A10 7850K is a capable all round processor. almost silent. low power drain. low heat emissions. Cons: Will need a discrete graphics card to power the latest games properly at 1080p. AMD A10 7850K is quite an expensive APU Kitguru Says: We do rate the Dead Silence Kaveri Gaming Battlerig highly, and with the £50 Seagate Hybrid HDD/SDD included in the build for £599.99 you would have the foundation of a fantastic media center, capable of powering many of the latest titles.