AVADirect Core 2 Duo SLI - CNET
CNET have published their review of the AVADirect Core 2 Duo SLI gaming desktop PC. 'We went to some of the better-known gaming PC vendors for a price check on the AVA Direct Core 2 Duo SLI and we found that it costs roughly the same as other, similar PCs. Alienware and Velocity's prices were nearly identical, Maingear's was about $3,100, while a similar rig from Falcon Northwest hovered around $2,500. So our AVA Direct PC costs about what it should.
For that $2,747, you get a Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 2.6GHz (from 2.4GHz), 2GB of 1,066MHz DDR2 SDRAM, an overclocked 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card, a 150GB 10,000rpm main hard drive, and a second (non-RAID) 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive for storage. All of that is tied to an NForce 680i SLI motherboard with integrated audio. In other words, with this system, AVA Direct has taken an already-solid collection of midrange to high-end parts and beefed them up where possible to squeeze out more performance.'
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