We’ve got an interesting pair of
sub-£1,000 gaming PCs this month. Both this Chillblast machine and the Aria rig
over the page are Intel-based, and both are rocking Core i5 CPUs. Chillblast’s
Fusion Trigger uses the older i5-4670K though, while Aria’s Gladiator Hellion
1000 is the first full PC to hit our labs with the new Devil’s Canyon i5-4690K.
We have our doubts as to whether
that’s really the telling difference between the specs of these two fine
figures of gaming PC-dom – what’s probably more telling is their choice of
graphics card. Chillblast is representing the green side of the divide, with a
GTX 770 from Palit doing the graphical hard work, while Aria is on the AMD side
with the competing R9 280X.
The GTX 770 and R9 280X are the
go-to mid-range graphics cards from the two GPU giants and, more than anything
else, the choice of graphics card is what has the greatest impact on your rig’s
gaming performance. To that end, you’ve got to hand it to Chillblast for making
the wiser choice on the GPU.
The old Kepler-based GTX 770 is
essentially the top Nvidia 600 series
card – the GTX 680 – but with a different sticker. That means it has serious
gaming performance and won’t tax the energy grid too much, or turn the Perspex
side panel of your PC into some melted homage to Emile’s nightmarish face from old-school
RoboCop. The GTX 770 has the beating of the R9 280X pretty much across the
board, only losing out to the AMD card in GRID 2 and Metro: Last Light in our
2,560 x 1,600 high-resolution tests. The AMD’s wider memory bus and greater
frame buffer really levels things up at the higher resolutions, but at 1080p
the Nvidia card take the lead by a quite considerable margin.
But what about the rest of the rig?
Well, that’s where it gets trickier to call. The older Core i5-4670K here is
given a fairly modest overclock to 4.3GHz – we’ve seen similar machines pushing
the chip harder with the same sort of 120mm liquid cooling radiator this
machine relies on. In real terms though, there’s little difference between the
older Haswell i5 and the new Devil’s Canyon chip, especially when you’re
looking at gaming rather than CPU-specific benchmarks.
The Fusion Trigger doesn’t have
the new Devil’s Canyon i5, but it is rocking the new Z97 chipset in the shape
of the Asus Z97-K motherboard. The full ATX board offers support for the next
generation of Intel chips, code-named Broadwell, when they arrive next year. It
also means that it comes with support for the new M.2 PCIe SSD interconnect.
That could be key for this machine as it doesn’t come with an SSD as standard,
relying on a 1TB Seagate SSHD for storage.
We’ve become solid-state snobs on
PC Format recently, and we really struggle to cope without one. But that’s our
only real issue with this good value, well-built PC. We still miss a boot SSD,
but the rest of the package will give you an excellent gaming experience right
up to the high-end 1600p resolution.
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