![]() ![]() Clearly you could specify an optical drive at a small cost when you order your new Nox. ![]() The only snag we can point to with this PC is that our sample came with a recovery DVD for Windows 10 yet the PC doesn’t have a DVD drive. The thing is that we cannot see how you can buy these components for less than £1800 which makes no sense as you can buy this built PC for £1499 with a three year warranty. ![]() You could easily copy the specification of Nox and it shouldn’t be too difficult to match the quality of the PC Specialist build, provided you dedicate a few hours to the process. Take a look at our video and photos and you will see a stack of carefully chosen components that have been neatly built into an excellent gaming PC, and then PC Specialist overclocked the CPU for good measure. ![]() There is no point in disguising the fact that we adore the PC Specialist Nox. None of this comes as a surprise to those of us who admire fine PC hardware. Temperatures were pleasingly low which shows that the Corsair case flows plenty of air, the Corsair H100i GTX does a fine job and GTX 980 Maxwell technology is superb. It only draws 75W at the wall socket on the Windows desktop which rises to 280W in 3D Mark and 310W in the synthetic AIDA64 benchmark. Lovely.ĭespite the stellar performance, this PC barely sips electricity. Mind you, we would expect nothing less from an overclocked example of the latest Core i7, especially when it is backed up by an Intel 750 SSD, a bunch of DDR4 and a GTX 980 graphics card. The PC delivered excellent results in 3D Mark, GTA V, Thief and Tomb Raider and was superb fun across the piece. Nox was tested at 1,920 x 1,080 rather than 4K which is a reflection of the fact that GTX 980 can drive Full HD at any settings you choose, while 4K demands you trim your image quality settings to keep your frame rates suitably high. Other than that minor glitch the experience with Nox was entirely positive. BullGuard quickly got on our nerves and when it informed us that ‘Internet Explorer had been granted access to the Internet’ it was destined for the uninstall bin. On the software side of things there is an installation of 64-bit Windows 10 Home, Corsair Link to monitor and control the H100i GTX cooler and to display temperatures and fan speeds and a trial copy of BullGuard Internet Security. PC Specialist has added a white LED lighting kit which contrasts beautifully with the black Corsair case, and of course the Corsair H100i GTX is also illuminated to add to the effect. Wrapping the whole thing up we have a Corsair Obsidian 750D case, Corsair 750W CS power supply and Corsair H100i GTX CPU cooler mounted in the roof of the case with the Obsidian fans left in place at the front of the case. PC Specialist has also included a 2TB Toshiba hard drive to ensure you have somewhere to store all your games. The big news is the 400GB Intel 750 PCI Express SSD with NVMe which is blisteringly fast and also horribly expensive at £290. Graphics are provided by a Zotac GTX 980 4GB, although if we are being pedantic we should say the figures are 1140MHz core, 1241MHz boost and 7012MHz memory which is a tiny percentage faster than reference speed. That’s just a thought as Skylake is rather expensive. Those three major components add up to £650 and they are all top notch and beyond reproach, although it might be worth noting that Core i7-5820K is currently available for £300 and that £90 saving could be put towards an X99 motherboard. This CPU clock speed is backed up with 16GB of Kingston HyperX DDR4 with an XMP profile of 2667MHz enabled on the Asus Maximus VIII Ranger motherboard. They have increased CPU Core voltage from 1.2V to 1.328V and then increased the multiplier to 46x. The heart of the NOX system is an overclocked Intel Core i7-6700K that typically runs at 4.0GHz/4.2GHz however PC Specialist has overclocked the CPU to 4.6GHz. Warranty: 3 year Standard (I month C&R, 1 year parts, 3 years labour) Memory: 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR4-2666MHz Watch via our VIMEO Channel (Below) or over on YouTube at 1080p50 HEREĬPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz up to 4.6GHz Nox can also handle 4K provided you are sensible about image quality settings. There is always a danger that a review of a PC can turn into a list of components and Nox falls under that heading as PC Specialist has selected some top notch hardware and then assembled a high end gaming PC that is ideal for Full HD gaming. PC Specialist has announced a gaming PC with the shortest name we have ever heard. ![]()
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