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Two thumbscrews hold the side panel in place and the insides of the case are painted entirely black, which looks great.
OCUK are using a Coolit liquid cooler – the ECO II FatBoy. We have tested this before and it is extremely impressive. The optical drive stands out from the rest of the build, as it is white. OCUK are thankfully using a black front plate however so it matches the external appearance of the case.
OCUK are using the ZS Series 650W power supply. We reviewed the 550W version of this power supply in September last year and it is a quality product. At the right of the build is the 60GB Agility 3 OCZ SSD above the Hitachi Deskstar 1TB hard drive.
8GB of Corsair Vengeance memory is installed, with heatspreaders. I have used this memory extensively over the last year and it is very stable and reliable.
The engineers at OCUK have paid a lot of attention to the cable routing phase of the build, with all cables neatly running behind the motherboard plate, out of view.
I like the case, but i would personally have opted for a cheaper cooler for the CPU, a smaller storage drive, maybe even 4GB of ram. With the money saved on those, it could be put into the graphics card.
Another 7770 would make a lot of difference in regards to the gaming power, but im surprised that the 7770 is quite capable at 1080p anyway with a lot of games. just shows how overkill the really high end cards are for most people.
Good points:
good CPU and cooler choice
case is great.
Bad points.
the machine is really not classed as a gamers machine with a 7770 in it. I think they could have balanced it a little better by lowering the cost of some items as someone else said and by then maybe using a grade up in the discrete department.
Also the case needs more OCUK branding on it. This is why Alienware and Dell sell well for such expensive systems. you are buying something that looks like nothing else. Like Apple.
Shame they couldnt work with a company to do special colours and logos on their system builds. it might attract more attention.