Review:Kyogre
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Almost based on AMD's dragon platform technology(well, this computer uses a 4770 graphics card, not a 4800 series, so can't really call it dragon platform based. However a 4770 is about the performance of a 4850, so its actually about the same), Kyogre promises performance. It's a multitasker. A quad core CPU running at 2.6GHz. AMD processors from the Athlon II and Phenom II line are great overclockers. They do not run as hot than their previous generations and I'm sure that you can get at least 3.0GHz stable on this processor with the stock cooler. This build is also L3 cache unlocked, which means it is almost identical to the more expensive Phenom II lineup of CPUs, providing the identical performances if overclocked to the frequencies of respective Phenom II processors.
Kyogre is equipped with Biostar TA790GXE 128M Motherboard, 790GX northbridge chipset from AMD, together with 750SB Southbridge chipset providing the best performance for value. The motherboard is future proof with 2 PCI-E x16 slots and can make use of Ati Crossfire X technology if more graphics processing power is needed for the future. The motherboard also has 4 ddr2 dimm slots and currently only uses 2. Future memory upgrades are made possible.
The NZXT Apollo black Chassis needs no introduction. It really looks good. It can be equipped with 3 fans, one at the front,one at the back, and one from the side to cool your graphics card. It only provides one fan at the side panel and the rest of the two fans are optional.
Ati radeon 4770 is the world's first graphics card that makes use of the 40nm manufacturing technology. The die being smaller, it is overclocks very well as produces much less heat compared to the graphics card which is manufactured by a larger die size technology.
Kingston 800MHz DDR2 RAM 2GB X2- Best performance for the value with the skyrocketing costs of DDR2 prices as it's the time to change to DDR3s.
LG 22x DVD Writer- I really do mean it. There's nothing special. It writes DVD at 22x. It reads CDs and DVDs. It writes CDs too....
AMD Athlon II X4 620- At a stock frequency of 2.6GHz, you have the potential to go beyond the 3GHz barrier. Just a little bit of tweaking in the BIOS, L3 cache unlocked, meaning it is as good as a Phenom II line up of processor which is almost 2 times the cost of the Athlon II 620. Do you know that the Athlon II 620 is the cheapest Quad core processor in the market right now?
This is the first computer system that I've actually reviewed. More coming right up! Stay tuned!
