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ABS Ultimate X Striker Elite - CNET

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CNET have published their review of the ABS Ultimate X Striker Elite gaming desktop PC. ‘Despite the fact that the ABS Ultimate X Striker Elite and its new quad-core chip don't dominate every benchmark test, its performance still ranks where it should. We can only compare this system to what we've tested before, which is why the other systems listed (with the exception of the Polywell Poly i680SLI) all have an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 chip overclocked to 3.2GHz or (excluding the Gateway FX530XT) have Windows XP, which uses much less memory and overall CPU power than Windows Vista.

Those apparent disadvantages aside, the ABS makes a fair account of itself on CNET Labs benchmark tests. Its iTunes score led its category and is a good indicator that the combination of so much memory and a faster quad-core CPU will really benefit encoding times. And on F.E.A.R., a particularly tough, 3D-gaming test, you can see that even though the Gateway has an overclocked CPU, its relatively weak Radeon CrossFire X1950 XT is no match for the ABS with its single GeForce 8800 GTX card.’

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