PCSpecialist Vanquish Z11 System Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell February 14, 2013 Featured Announcement, PC

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

The i5 3570k may only be a quad core processor, but when overclocked it delivers high levels of performance. The 1,600mhz Kingston memory also scores well considering the modest speeds.

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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.

7 comments

Joe
February 14, 2013 at 8:41 am

I built a system for the same price. Very closely matched actually, except my cable routing is a mess.

They seem a good company.
Wilker
February 14, 2013 at 8:43 am

Never even seen that case before, looks very aggressive. I like it.

Seems like a good well balanced system, only thing I would change would be the cooler. get the H60 and overclock it to 4.7 or 4.8. only £30 more.
Andi
February 14, 2013 at 8:43 am

GOod company, my friend bought the last system Kitguru reviewed from them and he loves it. this looks good too.
Vhero
February 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm

this isnt available on their site I looked everywhere for this system as there finance options are really great. Pay within a year and pay Zero interest.
Zardon
February 14, 2013 at 2:08 pm

Vhero, its a special system deal – link is in the conclusion page – https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/reviews/
stuey
February 14, 2013 at 6:50 pm

I have this case it has great cooling and is very quiet even though it has five fans as standard