Chillblast - Fusion Tornado Quadro

Yet another high powered, high spec system from Chillblast and yes, it does carry a high price tag. But that's no more than you'd expect from a system built around Intel's quad core CPU, a case full of high-end components and Windows Vista Ultimate.
The system is built into a huge, silver, Coolermaster Stacker 830 full tower case. This case may be on the massive side (to give you an idea how massive, it can support up to nine 120mm cooling fans), but as with most Coolermaster cases it's very well built, as you might be able to gather from its weight of just over 14kg when empty.
At the heart of the Fusion Tornado Quadro sits one of Intel's QX6700 Core 2 Quad Extreme processors, the first quad core CPU to hit the market. As usual with Chillblast, the company hasn't left the QX6700 to run at its standard 2.66GHz but instead has tweaked it to run at 3.0GHz, yet with standard cooling.

The CPU sits in a BFG Nforce 680i SLI motherboard which, as you can guess, uses Nvidia's high-end Nforce 680i chipset which provides, amongst many things, two full-speed x16 PCI-E graphics slots. Sitting in two of the four DIMM slots are two 1GB sticks of GSkill PC2-6400 DDR2 memory which trundles along at 800MHz. As you may expect, the Tornado Quadro lacks nothing in performance as demonstrated by a score of just under 10,000 when tested with PCMark05.
The performance is aided by both the storage system and by the choice of graphics card. To be truthful, only part of the storage system assists performance, as the Fusion Tornado Quadro comes with two separate hard drives; one for the operating system and one for storage. The all important system drive is a 74GB Western Digital Raptor drive which makes up for its small capacity with a 10,000rpm spin speed and a 16MB cache, although for an extra £65 you can upgrade it to the 150GB version.
The data storage drive is a 500GB, 7,200rpm, Western Digital disk with a 16MB cache. If you're still not impressed, the case is so large that you can put together a huge RAID array, as besides the two free remaining 3.5-inch drives there are eight 5.25-inch bays left empty, while the ninth bay is filled by the 18x SATA dual layer DVD burner.
As mentioned previously, the motherboard is SLI capable but Chillblast only supplies one graphics card so it's up to you if you want to up your gaming performance later by adding a second card to take advantage of SLI technology.
But the single card supplied is no slouch: an ASUS GeForce 8800GTX, currently the fastest GPU around, so even straight out of the box you can play any of today's games on the Fusion Tornado Quadro with blisteringly fast frame rates. We recorded an average frame rate in F.E.A.R. of 210fps when tested at a resolution of 1,024 by 768.
To aid you in your gaming experience, Chillblast has put together an impressive audio and display package for the Fusion Tornado Quadro. The audio system is driven by a high-end Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme audio card whose output powers a 7.1 speaker system in the form of Creative Labs' Inspire T7900 speaker system.
Meanwhile the monitor is a 20-inch Samsung SyncMaster 206BW widescreen TFT, which has a native resolution of 1,680 pixels by 1,050 and - if you are impressed by such things - a 2ms response time (grey to grey).
Rounding out the hardware package is a Logitech EasyCall SpeakerPhone keyboard and mouse, while the software bundle comprises Ulead VideoStudio 9 SE DVD, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and Avast AntiVirus. Chillblast provides a two-year Collect and Return warranty backed by lifetime phone support.

source:itreviews.com